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And if, Indian fashion, he laid his ear to the ground, he already heard the festive music being rehearsed below ground that is to be played on the great day of a universal renaissance. "All of us," he said, "should first be Americanized and then become neo-Europeans." One of Frederick's favourite walks was to the suburb of Meriden where the Italian wine-growers settled.
Vitus and quivering against the tables as you eat; with its marked napkins in a rack, like the shaving cups in a rural barber shop, one napkin a week to each regular patron. Avaunt, ye gauds of Americanized Paris. Here are poor and starving artists come to dine aristocratically on seventy-five centimes fifteen cents. Here are no gapings of Cook's; here no Broadway prowlers.
In 1848 he had impaled himself on the horns of one of those dilemmas which present themselves so frequently to absentee governments and secretaries of state either reciprocity and an Americanized colony, or a new rebellion as the consequence of a refusal in Britain to consent to a reciprocity treaty.
But tha'z not all; hardly was it half. One thing beside was the miz-conduct of an agent, the man who lately" a silent smile. "What? sold your aunts that manuscript?" "Yes. But he didn' count the most. Oh, the whole businezz, except papa's, became, as we say give me the word!" "Americanized?" "No, papa he always refused to call it that. Mr.
This second generation came to the city boarding-house and flat as soon as they were free, leaving their parents' houses to go the same way as the grandfather's farmhouse, into the hands of the foreigner not yet Americanized to high standards of cleanliness and orderliness. These houses, too, are settling down into unkempt grounds with dilapidated porches and blinds.
All over France I scattered my belongings. That's what you get by having had a valet for so long. "So I called up Joe Bruzinski, my top sergeant. Best top in the army, Joe; systematic, methodical. I depended upon him for nearly everything; couldn't have gotten along without him, in fact. Not an educated fellow, you know. Rather crude. An Americanized Pole, I believe.
In his daily life he had become Americanized, and was as practical in his methods as the shrewd people with whom he dealt, and whom he often outwitted. Apart from this habit of coping with life just as he found it, he had an inner nature of which few ever caught a glimpse, a spirit and an imagination deeply tinged with German ideality and speculation.
She believes very strongly in the will: If I will this, if I will that, and it is the right will, not wickedness, it is done as good as done; and force is quite superfluous. In her sermons, she exhorts to prayer before action. 'Preaches? 'She moves a large assembly, sir. 'It would seem, that England is becoming Americanized! exclaimed the Conservative in Mr. Barmby.
How different would the power of Germany have been, German Imperialists were ever repeating, if the 20,000,000 Teutons who have colonized the United States, or Brazil, or Argentina, and have been absorbed and Americanized and Saxonized, had settled in territories under the Imperial flag! To-day the immigration into Germany exceeds the emigration.
He lives here. We thought we had Americanized him; but now he has slipped back and is almost as bad as he was to start with. Arthur Scodd-Paston that's the way his cards read to-day. Do you care for paintings?" "Of course. Is Arthur Scodd-Paston like one?" "You bad girl! Well, we might just stick our noses in the picture-gallery for a minute.
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