Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...refresh me at noon with new milk, I put on my white flannel suit with some care and started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance one yard. "Just three miles" is the only unit of long measure used in New Hampshire...
...Amherst Student has a very patriotic and rather sentimental article on the "American Westminster," which we find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes...
...sure, during the pause of the "Akademisches Viertel" the doors and some of the windows are thrown open for a few minutes; yet during that time the bad air is not all removed. And it sometimes really seems as though the German student, were he quite by his own countrymen without the presence of foreigners, would willingly and with perfect content sit in this atmosphere of poison, without once thinking of opening a window...
...novelty, and considers that the accidental fact that he was born on the western shore of the Atlantic enables him to solve every problem that was ever offered to the human mind with an enthusiasm which is at once amusing and disgusting. Any civilized person can see that our countrymen of the present day have become far more ridiculous than our Revolutionary ancestors could have been sublime. And the impulse of every civilized person is to evince the fact of his civilization by making his mode of dress, his mode of thought, and his mode of life as different...
Disgusted with the wild enthusiasm and with the incessant squabbling push which they see among their less fortunate fellow-countrymen, they determine to display their importance by being as different as possible from their fellow-countrymen. Charmed with the easy-going indifference of those elegant men of leisure whose drearily monotonous lives are far less happy than that of the struggling Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate...