Word: alienating
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...would in some way compensate for my looks, but her efforts only made me keenly conscious of my shortcomings. . . . My father [Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore Roosevelt], charming, good-looking, loved by all who came in contact with him. high or low, had a background and upbringing which were alien to her pattern. He had a physical weakness... Whether it was some-weakness from his early years which the strain of the life he was living [in Texas] accentuated, whether it was the pain he endured, I do not know. . . . He began, however, to drink, and for my mother...
Item: an old Italian woman who passes food to sit-down strikers is threatened with deportation as an alien-although there is no charge of illegal entry into...
...selecting Professor Tinker Harvard has chosen an alien genius of undoubted popularity. Harvard has never evinced any false modesty over the worth of her own sons. Through the Norton Professorship, however, she is able to ward off the spring fever of complacency with a salutary drink now and then from the waters of outlying springs. This tonic is of considerable concern to Bostonians, as well as students, and is generally offered to the public. Especially since the professorship is thus turned to a popular purpose must the choice be a popular...
...support their brief that the contract was void the legalists cited the Contract Labor Law of 1885 which voids contracts entered into with aliens prior to entry into the U. S. Revised in 1917, the law permits U. S. appearances of professional actors, artists and singers, also entry of fair & exposition performers contracted by an alien exhibitor. What Judge Barnes had to decide this week is whether the statute bars such contracts secured by a U. S. promoter...
Back in America he aided Jefferson in the Louisiana Purchase, tinkered with his bridge models, fell out with his few remaining friends, suffered his worst blow when the election-supervisors at New Rochelle barred him from voting, called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool...