Word: alienations
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...commission to rename certain villages and districts which have a Greek or Byzantine name. In each case a Turkish equivalent must be found; in the case of San Stefano (on the Sea of Marmora near Constantinople), however, a new name must be found as it "savors of an alien faith...
There were the charitably inclined, and the representatives of alien organizations, who advocated taking down the .bars to admit large groups of refugees and the down-trodden people of the world...
...first time the New York theatre has sunk to depths of indecency which must be characterized as alien...
Whether America will take this alien creed to her bosom is a moot query. That Archipenko will arouse violent opinion on both sides is patent. A hint of what he may expect at the hands of orthodoxy was contained in a review by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, A. N. A. (painter), when Archipenko's cubistic statue of a soldier was shown in Manhattan in 1921: "The thing is worthless. Only a fundamental degeneration could have produced it, and it is an ominous sign when any sane human being finds it of interest...
...State where the fiery cross brazenly burned from the tops of courthouses, will defeat the members of the Invisible Empire that "gave its orders to sheriffs, prosecuting attorneys, jurors, and judges, ordered citizens flogged, threatened others, and instituted a business boycott against what they call the alien world...