Word: alienized
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...unthinkable and impossible to imagine that the real Americans of the type who made this country, such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson or Monroe, or the devout and God-fearing Pilgrims who preceded them, should voluntarily sit and watch corpulent Italian, Spanish, French or German aliens and a few Americans, trained in Europe and alienized, enacting, upon the stage, scenes of Latin passion, seductions, betrayals, murders, assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera...
...Came a delegation of alien-born U.S. citizens, 40-odd strong, and the President read to them: "It is not very long, as History views matters, since all of us were alien to this soil. I suppose that if Methuselah . . . should drop in on our little party, he would regard us all as upstarts...
...hundred percent Americans have flung another insult in the face of the alien. In solemn council the descendants of the ferocious Iroquois Indians of New York and Canada have decided to institute a movement to cast off the white man's God and the white man's civilization. When theatre crowds are bustling along the noisy streets of Buffalo and Montreal, the forests will look upon familiar scenes from the past. While sacred fires shed an eery glow upon the pines, red men will dance as of old, with mystic rite and stately tread, chanting their hymns to the Great...
...visit to America, in 1902, has now been recalled. It was an unmistakable fizzle. He was to collect $60,000-$4,000 per week. Received enthusiastically, his popularity rapidly waned. His manager turned against him and enmeshed him in embarrassing lawsuits. There was even a movement to deport his alien orchestra. He left in disgust. And now he remains abroad in equal disgust...
...Adriatic (White Star) ? Arthur Hornblow, playwright, dramatic critic; five European Managers of the Remington Typewriter Co.; one Johann Romitch, Austrian stowaway, who hid on the Adriatic leaving Manhattan three weeks ago, was sent back on the boat by British Alien Officers, cannot be landed in the U. S., "may have to be carried back and forth from Manhattan to Liverpool for years...