Word: alienating
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...teens Peter slaved in a steelworks. When World War I started he tried to get into a swank cadet school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...
...heart and mind of Britain may have been across the laden English Channel last week, but Britons did not show it. King and commoners, noble lords, grimy street sweeps went about their usual jobs. To an alien eye the most remarkable thing about Britain in invasion week was its British normality...
...Patrick's Cathedral for the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost,† blinked not an eyelash when a slight, Sunday-dressed worshiper stood up at the altar rail, heaved two poorly aimed eggs which splattered at the Archbishop's feet. The egg-thrower, a meek Czech alien, explained to the police: the Archbishop had "said something I didn't like...
...also president of the U.S. subsidiary SKF Industries, Inc., flew to Philadelphia. Flanked by Army and Navy offi cials, he stood on a flag-bedecked plat form to assure his 8,000 workers that SKF Industries is an "American company operated by American people." The Treasury and the Alien Property Custodian, which have been quietly probing SKF Industries, chimed in with praise for its "excellent'' war record. But many a question about SKF was still unanswered...
Brisson made a number of pictures for Paramount in 1934-35, played in one Broadway musicomedy, but failed to register and returned to England. When the war began, as an alien in England, he had to go home under armed guard after each night's performance. He returned to the U.S. in 1941, went to Hollywood, discovered he was classified as a has-been...