Word: alienating
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...BUSINESSMAN WISHING TO USE A NAZI PROCESS SHOULD OF COURSE MAKE THE CUSTOMARY PATENT SEARCH. IF THERE IS NO U.S. PATENT THERE IS NO PROBLEM. IF THERE IS A U.S. PATENT TAKEN OUT BY AN ENEMY ALIEN, PATENT RIGHTS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN...
...Hong owners exploit him ("They are blackhearted," he complains-in Shanghai, before last week's strike, they upped their daily rentals from 60? to $2.60), moneylenders gouge him, racketeers batten on him. Yet, in 1918 in Shanghai, he took up bamboo sticks and iron bars to destroy the alien trolleys that menaced his means of meager livelihood-which, after all, is better than that of millions of his fellows...
...because he had married a Jewess. When the Nazis took over, his wife divorced him for his sake, but without his knowledge. He came to the U.S. via Japan, then sent for his wife and remarried her. After Pearl Harbor the FBI seized Schwieger as an enemy alien; he was held for 401 days until friends got him out. The day he came home from jail, his wife dropped dead...
...Alien Sin. The war brought Peggy and Surrealist Max Ernst together in Marseilles. Says she: "He had white hair and big blue eyes and a handsome, beaklike nose resembling a bird's. He was exquisitely made. . . . When I began my affair with Max Ernst it was not serious but soon I discovered that I was in love with him." They fled to the U.S. together, and while Ernst painted feathered nudes, Peggy got her Manhattan gallery under...
They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...