Word: alienating
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...often ponderously British captions underneath, wonder what the English see in them to smile at. And there the occa- sional Punch reader is too hasty, for hidden away in those oldfashioned, closely printed columns are to be found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend. Publishers Doubleday, Doran have collected them in a book which reads more entertainingly than most...
...exceptionally bleak, forbidding, and almost illegal ugliness of Appleton Chapel, where there are prayers and Sunday services for such as choose to go to them, must have guided the discussions toward the substitution of a humane Georgian building sympathetic with the older and the newer architecture--except the unforgivingly alien Widener Library. Appleton Chapel, on the palette of memory, has a kind of dirty, yellow, jaundiced look. It seems to leave a gritty taste in the mouth...
...great generation passed with the death of Ella Wendel, last of a truly New York family. In Ella a long line of men and women concentrated all their traditional reverence and single-minded passion for property in a vain attempt to perpetuate their ideals in an alien world...
...Enemy Alien's Wife...
...time John got his commission and went to France Janet was afraid Carl was dead. One day in a dressing station John saw his father, unconscious, fearfully wounded. Janet, sure Carl was dying, tried to get permission to go to him, but she was rated as "enemy alien," was not allowed. The doctor saved Carl's life, at the cost of a leg, both eyes. Then John...