Word: alienations
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...river, fit for nothing but the languid progress of punts, to show such interest and variety within a few short miles. He has no patience with those who would reduce the banks of the stream to the insipid beauty of a city park. It is a dirty stream, to alien eyes an unattractive stream, but it is peculiarly...
Freed last week, Mr. Remus pondered a pending U. S. Government suit to deport him as an undesirable alien. He is a native of Germany...
...another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism of the defendants at a time when the public mind was in a state bordering on panic fear of alien revolutionaries. They were convicted, motions for a new trial were denied by the trial judge, and an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court based on the denial of these motions and on errors of law alleged to have been committed at the trial, was dismissed...
...following pages," warns Biographer Ludwig, "neither Socialist nor alien voices will be heard-only the voices of the Emperor, his relatives and friends, his Chancellors, Ministers and Generals, his courtiers and officials." Out of their own mouths these men condemn themselves-but of very different offenses than were attributed to them during the War. Says the author: "The War-years, to which the youngest reader can bear witness, receive the least extended treatment-for they were merely the logical epilogue to the psychological prologue." Since the author virtually steps down and lets his characters tell their own story, the book...
...Alien Property Custodian, Mr. Miller returned $7,000,000 worth of stock in the American Metal Co., which had been seized by the U. S. during the World War, to the original German owners. This transaction was speeded up with a $441,000 bribe, of which Mr. Miller received $50,000. Mr. Daugherty, John T. King and Jesse W. Smith were supposed to have shared the remaining $391,000. Messrs. King and Smith are now dead; Mr. Daugherty is free. Notwithstanding Lawyer Sapiro, many say that Mr. Miller is the "goat...