Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishman...
...opinion of an Englishman who has read TIME for over 18 months may be of interest...
...interviewer asked not too fact-fully, perhaps, whether the Englishman was as slow to appreciate a joke as be is reported...
...absolutely not!" declared Miss Lillie, not without considerable vehemence. "They can see a joke just as well and just as quickly as an American. One country's ideas of another country are often quite amasing. You very seldom see the American's idea of a typical Englishman with his monocle, or, for that matter, the Englishman's idea of a typical American with his chewing gum. Both have their short comings, but one doesn't mind them if one possesses a sense of humor, does...
...hundred per cent or the more ebullient one half of one per cent variety, complacently believes in his own capacity for withstanding any exhibition of himself "as others see" him. The Babbitt Warren is an attempted expose of the American people, American customs, and the American spirit by an Englishman, who confesses guilelessly enough that he "has not had the privilege of visiting the United States". That his indictment of us in the flesh is based on what he would admit to be hear-say evidence is perhaps the kindest thing that can be said...