Word: alienating
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...rushed to Washington to get the release, with recommendations from the War Department made application to the Justice Department (which has an Alien Property division left over from World War I). He waited in vain for results...
...read in the paper that the Treasury would be in charge of alien property, rushed over and filed another application. The Treasury told him also to file with his Federal Reserve Bank, so he went back West and did so. Again he waited in vain...
...years, sat on Ellis Island while a substitute Mephistopheles sang at the winter season's last matinee. Italian-born Basso Pinza, who had eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very shy and easily hurt...
...come out of Russia since the war engulfed the Soviets, shed a strange leftish light on the mysterious spiritual sources that steel Stalin's subjects to fortitude. There emerges a weird composite of child mentality, propaganda hallucination, semireligious selflessness and apparently bottomless intrepidity-a mixture as interesting but alien to U.S. understanding as Tibet...
...Equally alien is Caldwell's account of an efficiency of desperation which might drive Americans mad but seems to work in Russia. Prize samples: 1) On the trunk highway from Moscow to Smolensk, an unbroken line of supply trucks moved day & night at a constant 20 miles per hour, without collision even when traffic was doubled. Reason: collision would have meant liquidation for the colliders. 2) Russians took orders so literally that one railroad-crossing guard refused to raise the bars and let Caldwell's stalled car get off the tracks to safety; a train was approaching...