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...Larkin Tower will stand like a defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...
Russia a great admiration for western civilization, for grottoes, frangipani and waterclocks; he brought back a mind homesick for the kindnesses of French gentlewomen, and brightened with an understanding of French statesmanship...
...labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they may be and nearly always driven back to the flat prairie, the land of opportunity and fertility. "Now I see," says Jo Berg, the dissatisfied old schoolmaster, "why it required mountain folk and sailors to conquer the prairie! Their knapsacks and their hearts...
Said he (according to the intensely anti-Bolshevik Chicago Tribune) : "I am Bill Haywood, but I ain't a Bolshevik any more. I wish I had never run away from Leavenworth. I am hungry and homesick, and if I cannot find work in Constantinople I am going back to the United States. I had rather live in Leavenworth any time than Bolshevist Russia. It ain't a white man's country...
Chauve Souris. With the rest of fashionable America, Nitka Balieff and his Kussian troupe departed last Spring for a Parisian Summer. There they entertained Americans homesick for Broadway, Russians wearying for Petrograd, French wearying of their tawdry native entertainments. In the course of the trip Balieff forgot a bit more of his Russian, his English improved, his comedy became a trifle more intelligible...