Word: alienating
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...suggestion is made that some system of alien registration be put in force. Such a policy is to be found among European countries and seems to justify itself...
...this the fact that the small colorful team from William and Mary was cheered consistently throughout the game by the University spectators, that on one occasion the referee was roundly hissed when he called a penalty against the Southerners at a rather crucial point, and the display offers something alien to the traditional partisanship attendant to America's fall sport. The attitude taken by the cheering section, however, was not treason to make the most of rather, it was a gesture of appreciation for a smaller team which had presented a gallant battle against difficult odds...
...robbery charges. After the war the U. S. kept him in Leavenworth penitentiary for a year for deserting the army and stealing while in it. Last summer he fled to Europe after a beer murder, was barred out of England, France and Germany as an undesirable alien (TIME, Sept. 8). He was returned to Philadelphia, his birthplace 33 years ago, on a freighter carrying 4,500 canaries, arrested for vagrancy, hustled out of town...
...States. Unlike numerous Wet demagogs in both parties who feast publicly on the bones of Dry mistakes, he did not rant and roar against Prohibition. He discussed it with cool-headed dispassion and dignity. He tried to un- scramble morals from government, warned of the Federal Government as "an alien and even hostile power," counseled a new "reasonableness" between Wets and Drys...
President & Mrs. Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. weekended at the Rapidan camp, for the first time this year taking along no guests, no work. ¶ To reduce the influx of alien labor and thereby relieve U. S. unemployment, the President ordered the State Department to tighten up its enforcement of the "public charge" provision of the Immigration Law. Under this provision U. S. consuls will be instructed to exercise their discretionary power to refuse passport visas to all non-preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join...