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...improve. There were a few "sweet young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
...fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel, was "a plump, soft, foppish young man . . . who wore always a carnation in his coat...
...Homeward bound and off the mouth of the Amazon one day in 1898, Slocum sighted the battleship Oregon heading toward him. On the last lap of her dash from the Pacific to get into the Spanish-American War, the Oregon hoisted the signals "C B T" which meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three...
...capital's slush, compounded partly of black Serbian mud, made walking hazardous. But most Belgraders walked; the city's insufficient trolley cars were so packed that the press called them sardine boxes. The homeward trek at nightfall conveys a strange sense of depressed urgency. Many Belgraders do not feel safe anywhere between their homes and their work; they flit off the streets like ghosts fleeing a graveyard at dawn. Here & there, watching the crowds from street corners or hotel lobbies, stood men either in uniform or in ankle-length black leather coats-which in the popular mind...
...people like Eygenraam, emigration-to Australia, Canada, South Africa and other countries that have room-seems the best solution; because of the tight quota (3,153 a year), few Dutch emigrants get to the U.S. Some, like Harrie Lamers and his twelve children who headed homeward last week after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must...