Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashamed to have to explain to a major of the U. S. Army (I am an American citizen) that the Dominicans as well as most of the population of Latin America are descendants of Spaniards, and consequently, it denotes quite a limited knowledge, the one who says this is a Negro republic...
...Fagan was in Santo Domingo during the American occupation he was witness of many a wedding of his fellow-in-arms with native girls, not blacks but whites...
...will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted to hit at the European bourgeois, who [is becoming] . . . more 'American' than most inhabitants of the United States. ... Mr. B. W. Smith is less 'Homo Americanus' than 'Homo Americanisatus.' " Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade...
Credit for the translation is due Dorothy Thompson, for the drawings to Constantin Aladjalov. The book is dedicated to Sinclair Lewis, "that good American...
...contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring. It's unhealthy...