Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could change England at all I should pray that she recognize a little more the really splendid cultivation of Americans and not be, as Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad as it is. If the English would come here instead of going year after year to Scotland, or the seashore, or France for their vacations, they would learn to admire us as we admire them. I have had the pleasure of entertaining several friends from "over there...
...improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended to (!) I may go again. LESTER PENNIMAN...
...most diverting section is that dealing with another class of advertisements. To quote again: "Under the classified caption. 'Matrimonial' numerous advertisements appeared containing the following representations: under the caption 'Would you marry? Our plan You win We win' the following appeared: 'Thousands of happy clients'. Under the caption 'America's Leading High Class Correspondence Institution' the following representation appeared: 'Ladies worth $75,000., $100,000., $200,000., $300,000. Quick results positively guaranteed'. Under the caption 'Try me first, Pay when married' appeared the name and address of the advertiser... Under the caption 'Wife guaranteed in six months' the following...
...months of paternalistic culture and Trinity will be in a position today claim to the title, "best read college in America." The possibilities for dinner and pullman car conversations that these informed men will enjoy, are unlimited. No need for Trinity graduates to depend on. Vanity Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering...
These prizes consisting of books with rare illustrations, books from noted presses, first editions, and presentation copies, are awarded through a foundation established by Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America in 1637, and who was several times governor of the Connecticut colony. He made numerous educational bequests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times...