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...often more reserved in conduct than we. If Britons sit in trains or busses without striking up a conversation with you, it doesn't mean they are being haughty and unfriendly. They don't speak to you because they don't want to appear intrusive or rude." (Says the Guide's British counterpart, prepared by Journalist Sir Willmott Lewis for R.A.F. cadets training in the U.S.: "Fellow travelers are by that very fact acquaintances in the States. It will not be resented if you get into conversations without any preliminary maneuvers...
Publisher Horace Liveright guided Ilka somewhat through England. She "never liked Horace much-he was rude to waiters"-but he took her to see George (Confessions of a Young Man) Moore, who unexpectedly pinched her behind. Somewhat encouraged, Ilka ventured to ask the fiercely conceited Master what he thought of Conrad. "I don't know, my child," said Moore testily, "I can't read Polish...
Harvard students who are accustomed to wander into any course they wish will receive a rude jolt if they attempt to do so at Summer School. For there is a fee of five dollars to audit another course without taking examinations or doing the required work...
...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
Allied experts who once boasted that oil would win the war began to realize last week that the oil may get into the wrong hands. It was a rude awakening...