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Daggett reflected; and it is probable that, as he cooled off from the excitement created by his late exertions, he fully recognised the justice of the other's remarks, and the injustice of his own claims. Still, it seemed to him un-American, un-Vineyard, if the reader please, to "give up;" and he clung to his error with as much pertinacity as if he had been right.
He appeared so well in a parlor, and had really such a distinguished presence, that it was a pleasure to look at him. But, for all that, Edith could never quite rid herself of the impression that he was intensely un-American.
Shame, thought I, that our National Bird, secure from discovery at Washington, should be practising this thoroughly un-American might-makes-right business! Yet through my being came a sympathetic whisper. I had never felt it while in contact with other people, but here I was stripped as a savage alone with the woods and the ocean.
"If I find that the people in these houses lead exclusive, un-American, godless lives. It would tempt me almost to despair of our country," she exclaimed, with tragic emphasis. "I don't understand about social matters, Selma. I must leave those to you.
Our genial satirist Punch hit the nail on the head: "Shall we eh reverse, Miss Lilian?" "Reverse, indeed; it's as much as you can do to keep on your legs as it is." One custom at American dances struck me as singularly stupid and un-American in its inelasticity.
That's what I call it. Well, have you sold a lot of them?" And he gave me a merry wink that cut me as with a knife One of the things about which he often made fun of me was my Talmud gesticulations, a habit that worried me like a physical defect. It was so distressingly un-American. I struggled hard against it.
So we just turned the whole thing over to the girls to manage and thought no more about it, being mighty hard pressed by the miserable and un-American bipartisan combination on the Athletic offices. School opened on Tuesday. The Junior class election came off on Thursday afternoon and a Miss Hamthrick was elected president. I would have bet on the college bell against her.
To make the feeling against the manufacturers more intense, statements were published to the effect that they were practising an unfair, un-American policy in discriminating against competent union men in favor of the cheap unskilled foreign labor.
Our administration's budget, with all its cuts, contains a large increase in funding for drug treatment and drug education. You must pass them both. We need then desperately. My fellow Americans, the problem of violence is an un-American problem. It has no partisan or philosophical element.
Here is a clear and well-put detection of a case of it: There is an argument in favor of child labor so un-American and so inhuman that I am almost ashamed to quote it, and yet it has been used, and I fear it is secretly in the minds of some who would not openly stand for it.
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