Vulgar words in The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great - Anglo-Saxon Nations (Page 1)
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CHAPTER XV THE PEOPLES AT PLAY 408 American Sport Twenty-five Years Ago--The Power of Golf--A Look Ahead--Britain, Mother of Sports--Buffalo in New York-- And Pheasants on Clapham Common--Shooting Foxes and the "Sport" of Wild-fowling--The Amateur in American Sport--At Henley--And at Large--Teutonic Poppycock.
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For the present, it is enough to note that it is possible for members of Parliament to do, without incurring a shadow of suspicion of their integrity, things which would damn a member of Congress irreparably in the eyes alike of his colleagues and of the country.
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CHAPTER XV THE PEOPLES AT PLAY American Sport Twenty-five Years Ago--The Power of Golf--A Look Ahead--Britain, Mother of Sports--Buffalo in New York--And Pheasants on Clapham Common--Shooting Foxes and the "Sport" of Wild-fowling--The Amateur in American Sport--At Henley--And at Large--Teutonic Poppycock.
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There is an excellent American slang word, which is "poppycock."
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English readers will understand the exact shade of meaning of the word when I say that the paragraph above quoted is most excellent and precise poppycock.
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But the point which I wish to emphasise is that it is not at all poppycock from the author's point of view.
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INDEX A _Academy_, newspaper, the, 159 Alderman, election of an, 239; "Mike," 252 Alliance, Anglo-American, desirable, 7, 430 Alliances, entangling, what they mean, 5 Amateurs, in sport, 421 American accent, the, 106 American dislike of England, 43, 46, 98 _sqq._, 112, 430 American journalists in London, 220 "American methods," in business, 328 American people, the, a bellicose people, 8; its fondness for ideal, 10; sensitive to criticism, 34; dislike of subterfuges, 34; an Anglo-Saxon people, 37, 87, 140; and its leading men, 48; foreign elements in, 58, 80, 227, 443; self-reliant, 67; resourceful, 70; homogeneous, 80, 211, 451; quick to move, 87; "sense of the state" in, 89; its ambitions, 90; character of, influenced by the country, 97; likes round numbers, 105; its provincialism, 113; its isolation, 116, 434; effect of criticism on, 115, 157; its attitude toward women, 119 _sqq._; its insularity, 146; manners of, 147; pushfulness, 148; did not invent all progress, 151; humour of, 152; its literature, 157; science, 159; art, 160; architecture, 160; its self-confidence, 164; factors in the education of, 171; influence of the Civil War on, 188; its hunger for culture, 189; not superficial, 193, 204; eclecticism, 194; musical knowledge of, 199; drama of, 201; takes culture in paroxysms, 203; looks to the future, 208; political corruption in, 234; great parties in, 256; political sanity of, 284; purifying itself, 300, 324, 336, 353, 364; aristocracy in, 309; shrinks from European commercial conditions, 331; hatred of trusts, 331; misrepresented by its press, 340; contempt for hereditary legislators, 346; commercial integrity, 351; religious feeling in, 353; insistence of an individuality, 382; a character sketch, 448 American speech, uniformity of, 85, 209 Americanisms, in English speech, 209; their origin in America, 216; disappearing, 224 Americans, at home in England, 36; fraternise with English abroad, 38; and "foreigners," 39; as sailors, 62; their ambitions, 90; in London, 106; ignorant of foreign affairs, 113; treatment of women, 119 _sqq._; their insularity, 146; energy, 148; humour, 152; what they think of English universities, 169; pride of family in, 181; know no "betters," 194; ambitious of versatility, 205; as linguists, 206; purists in speech, 219; cannot lie, 352; as story-tellers, 366; non-litigious, 394; do not build for posterity, 396; dislike stamps, 398; as sportsmen, 409 _Anglais, l'_, 2, 37, 141 Anglomania, 163 Anglo-Saxon, family likeness, the, 35, 432; particularist spirit, 37; versatility, 74; spirit in America, 87, 244; superiority, 118; attitude towards women, 140; ideals in education, 170; a fighting race, 187; ambition to be versatile, 205; and Celt in politics, 254; superior morality of, 349; pluck and energy, 381; the sporting instinct, 426 Anstey, F. L., his German professor, 156 Archer, Wm., on the Anglo-Saxon type, 38; on the American's outlook on the world, 97; on pressing clothes, 214 Architecture, American, 160 Aristocracy, in the U. S., 309; the British disreputable, 338, 442 Arnold, Matthew, his judgment of Americans, 108; his clothes, 108; on American colleges, 167; on American newspapers, 177; on generals as booksellers, 185 Art, American, 160; feminine knowledge of, 182 Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad, the, 363 Athletics in England and America, 420 Atlantis, a new, 94 B Baldwin, W. H., 305 Banks, American and English, 383 Barnard College, 142 Bears, bickering with, 381 Bell-cord, divination by the, 363 Benedick and Beatrice, 429 Bonds, recoiling from, 236 Books, advantage of reading, 172; ease of buying, in America, 174; prices of, 175; publishing American, in England, 221 Booksellers as soldiers, 185 Bosses in politics, 239, 252, 274 Boston, culture of, 195, 219 Botticelli, 185 Brewers as gentlemen, 315 Bribery in American politics, 234 "British," hatred of the name, 57 British bondholders, 52 British commerce, 52 British Empire, American misunderstanding of, 20, 112, 151, 435; its size, 437; its beauty, 447 Bryan, W. J., first nomination of, 234, 273; and W. R. Hearst, 283 Bryce, James, on American electoral system, 247; on State sovereignty, 262; on political corruption, 279; on the U. S. Senate, 287 Buffalo in New York, 416 Buildings, tall, built in sections, 368 Burke, Edward, in Ireland, 101; indictment against a whole people, 101 Business, as a career, 317; its effect on mentality, 318; the romance of American, 319; frauds in, 324; the tendency of modern, to consolidations, 330; speculation in America, 386; less ruthless in America, 388; slipshod, 395; principles of modern, 404 C California, the Japanese in, 263, 287 Cambon, M. Paul, 139 Campbell, Wilfred, in England, 92 Canada, American investments in, 379 Canadian opinion of England, 92; resemblance to Americans, 379 Carlyle, Thomas, 190 Caruso, Signor, 384 Celts, non-Anglo-Saxon, 254 Century Club, the, 103 _Champagne Standard, The_, 147 Chaperons, 381, 393 Chatham and American manufactures, 375 Cheques, cashing, 383 Chicago, pride in itself, 163; pigs in, 177 Civil War, the navy in the, 64; causes of, 11; magnitude of, 186; its value to the people, 188, 218 Classics, American reprints of English, 174 Cleveland, Grover, on Venezuela, 43, 109 Climate, the English, 121, 350 Co-education, its effect on the sexes, 127; in America, 142 Colonies, destiny of British, 94 Colquhoun, A. R., 113 Commercial morality, 308 Concord school, the, 157 Congress, corruption in, 244; compared with Parliament, 246, 249; more honest than supposed, 252; powers of, 289; best men excluded from, 345 Congressmen, how influenced, 247, 251; how elected, 247; log-rolling among, 249; hampered by the Constitution, 402 Conkling, Roscoe, 148 Constitution, U. S., growth of, 6; interpretation of, 288; and Congress, 402 Consular service, the American, 78 Contract, a proposed international, 338 Convention, a National Liberal, 270 Copyright laws, English, faulty, 221 Corporations, Mr. Roosevelt and the, 296; persecuted by individual States, 403 Corruption, in municipal affairs, 232, 239, 242; in national affairs, 234; in State legislatures, 235; in English counties, 237; in Congress, 244; in the railway service, 361 Court, U. S. Supreme, 400 Criticism, English, of America, 116, 157; American, of England, 117 Croker, Richard, 278 Cromwell as a fertiliser, 190 Crooks, William, elected Premier, 271 Crosland, W. H., 88 Cuba as a cause of war, 12 Cyrano de Bergerac, 196, 202 D Debtors favoured by laws, 403 Democrats correspond to Liberals, 256 Demolins, Edmond, on Anglo-Saxon superiority, 2; on _l'Anglais_, 37 Doctor, the making of a, 69 "Dog eat dog," 388 Domestic and imported goods, 163 Drama, the, in England and America, 201 Drunkenness, in London, 131 Dunne, F. P., 154 E Education, in England and America, 166; object of American, 193 Elections, purity of, 229 (note); municipal, 239; to Congress, 241; of a Prime Minister, 265; the last English general, 274; virulence of American, 281 Electric light, towns lighted by, 367 Embalmed beef scandals, 341 Emerson, R. W., on the Civil War, 188; the apostle of the individual, 382 English-made goods, 365, 373 English society, changes in, 314 English "style" in printing, 221 Englishmen, local varieties of, 85; effect of expansion on, 95; feeling of, toward Americans, 99, 434; as specialists, 105; dropping their H's, 106; check-suited, 108; their cosmopolitanism, 114; as husbands, 123; insularity of, 145; as grumblers, 149; lecturing, 195; as linguists, 206; study of antiquity, 208; careless of speech, 220; in American politics, 226; in English politics, 231; political integrity of, 238, 278; and business, 321; misunderstand American people, 347; the world's admiration of, 349; religious feeling in, 353; sense of honour in, 359; commercial morality of, 365; distrust American industrial stability, 371; as investors in U. S. and Canada, 379; slowness of, 380; as sportsmen, 415; admirable qualities of, 448 European plan, the, 104 Exhibition, an American, in London, 161 F Federal Government, the, and Illinois, 262; and Louisiana, 262; and California, 263; powers of, 288 Federalism, progress of, in America, 217 Feminism, 139 Ferguson, 133 _Fliegende Blätter_, 153 Football in England, 412 Foreign elements in the American people, 58, 80, 82, 138, 226 Forty-fourth Regiment, the, 40 France, England's _entente_ with, 8; and American commerce, 378 Franklin, Benjamin, his _Autobiography_, 157; and English political morality, 280 Frauds in American business, 324 Free silver, poison, the, 235; campaign of 1896, 280 Freeman, E. A., on the Englishman of America, 42 Frenchmen, opinions of, 2, 36, 37, 92, 139, 177, 378; attitude towards women, 120; towards learning, 205 Frontier life, as a discipline, 72, 381 G _Gentleman_, Bismarck's _parole de_, 234 Gentlemen, brewers as, 315; and business men, 316; in sport, 420 Gentlemen's agreement, the, 354 George, Lloyd, 334 Germans, outnumber Irish in N. Y., 58; attitude toward women, 120, 140; humour of, 153; laboriousness of, 205; in politics, 226, 255; as judges of honesty, 351 (note); in sport, 426 Germany, ambitions of, 29; Monroe Doctrine aimed at, 46 Gibson, C. D., 160 Girl, the American, 130 Gladstone, W. E., American admiration for, 167; on Japan, 205 Golf, the power of, 409 Granger agitation, the, 298 Gravel-pit, politics in a, 282 Great Britain, peaceful disposition of, 8, 23; pride of, 14, 61; desires alliance with U. S., 19; American hostility to, in 1895, 46; its nearness to America geographically, 50; commercially, 52; historically, 54; America's only enemy, 55; its army in S. Africa, 75; diversity of tongues in, 85; Norman influence in, 87; Canadian opinion of, 92; miraculously enlarged, 94; insularity of, 145; luck of, 149; cannot be judged from London, 150; class distinctions disappearing, 212; politics in, 231; municipal bosses in, 232; American conditions transplanted to, 237, 266; electing a Prime Minister in, 270; municipal politics in, 279; becoming democratised, 314; a creditor nation, 323; trust-ridden, 329; wealth of, 386; solicitor-cursed, 393; as the mother of sports, 414; preoccupation of, 433 "Grieg, the American," 200 H Hague, Conference at The, 17 Hanotaux, Gabriel, on American commerce, 378 Harrison, Benjamin, 47 Hays, C. M., 310 Hearst, W. R., and England, 46; bad influence of, 282; inventor of the yellow press, 342 (note) Hell-box, the, 281 Helleu, Paul, 196 Higginson, T. W., on American temperament, 2 Hill, James J., 310 Hoar, U. S. Senator, on England, 1; on the hatred of the British, 57 Homer as a Tory, 257 Homogeneousness of the American people, 83, 211, 451 Hotel, the Fifth Avenue, 122 Hotels, ladies' entrances to, 120 Howells, W. D., 147 Hughitt, Marvin, 311, 359 Humour, American and English, 152 I Ideals, American devotion to, 10 Illinois and the Federal Government, 262 Immigration problem, the, 81 India, 112 Indians, red, regard of, for Englishmen, 349; in the war of Independence, 350 (note); Turkish baths of, 363 Individuality, American insistence on, 382, 391 Insularity, English and American, 145 International sentiments, how formed, 291 Ireland, Burke's feeling for, 101 Irish, the influence of, against England, 58, 444; attitude towards women, 140; vote in politics, 227; as a corrupting influence, 252; non-Anglo-Saxon, 254; lack independence, 255; in New York, 277 Irving, Washington, on frontiersmen, 381 Italians, in municipal politics, 241, 253; lynched in New Orleans, 262 J James, Henry, 155 Japan, England's alliance with, 8; its eclectic method, 193; Mr. Gladstone on, 205; and California, 263, 287; tin-tacks for, 375 Japanese, in California, 263; British admiration of, 351; watering their horses, 367; as "John," 376 Johnson, Samuel, 132 Joint purses, 332 Jonson, Ben, 215 Justice in American courts, 400 K King George men, 349 Kipling, Rudyard, his "type-writer girl," 132; "The Sea Wife," 187; "The Monkey-Puzzler," 380; "An Error in the Fourth Dimension," 408 L La Farge, John, 103, 161 Lang, Andrew, on Americanisms, 221 Law, Bonar, 334 Legislators must read and write, 71 Legislatures, quality of American State, 79, 401 Letters, two, 389 Lewis, Alfred Henry, 154 Liberals, English, and Democrats, 256; influence of, on American thought, 346 "Liberty, that damned absurd word," 10 _Life_, New York, 129, 162 Literature, English ignorance of American, 157 Litigation, American dislike of, 394 "Live and let live," 388 Lobbyists, 244 Locomotives, temporary and permanent, 396 Log-rolling, 249 London, foreign affairs in, 114; Strand improvements, 151; "raining in," 163; a Tammany Hall in, 232 Lord, Englishmen's love of a, 309 Lords, the House of, and the U. S. Senate, 313; a defence of, 342 Louisiana and the Federal Government, 262 Loyal Legion, the, 187, 189 Luck, English belief in, 108 Lying, American ability in, 352 Lynchings, 302 M MacDowell, Edward, 200 Mafia in New Orleans, 263 Magazines, American, 160, 171, 180 Mansfield, Richard, 202 Max O'Rell, on John Bull and Jonathan, 36, 92; on American newspapers, 177 Merchant marine, the American, 63 Mexico, possible annexation of, 27 Mining camp life, 70, 132 "Molly-be-damned," 134 Monopolies, artificial and natural, 407 Moore, _Zeluco_, 119 Morality, of the two people, sexual, 120; political, _see under_ Corruption; commercial, 308, 400; sporting, 426 Morgan, Pierpont, 358 Mormons and ants, 214 Morris, Clara, 201 Mount Stephen, Lord, 310 Municipal politics, 231, 239, 242 Münsterberg, Hugo, on England, 36; on American commercial ethics, 351; on sport, 426 Music in England and America, 198 N N---- G----, 125 Navarro, Madame de, 201 Navigating, how to learn, 70 Navy, the American, 62 Negro problem, the, 301 New Orleans, battle of, 41; the Mafia in, 263 New York, not typically American, 72; proud of London, 163; culture of, 219; Irish influence in, 256; in national politics, 277 Newspapers, American and English, 177; sensationalism in, 326; peculiarities of American, 340 Norman influence in England, 87 Northern Pacific Railroad, the, 361 Norton, James, 163 O Operas, American knowledge of, 198 Opportunity, America and, 387 Oxenstiern, Count, 149 Oxford, value of, 169 P Packing-house scandals, 326 Panic, financial, the, of 1907, 325, 402 Parliament, railway influence in, 246; compared with Congress, 249, 344 Parsnips, 102 Parties, the two great, in America, 256; interdependence of national and local organisations, 264 Patronage, party, 265 Peace, universal, the possibility of, 13, 32, 431 Peerage, an American, 310; democracy of the British, 316; morals of, 338 Pheasants in London, 416 Philadelphia, corruption in, 252 Philistinism in England and America, 185 Pigs, in Chicago, 177; how to roast, 372 Pilgrims, the Society of, 47 Platform in American sense, 215 Poet's Corner, 132 Police, corruption through the, 232 Politics, American, the foreign vote in, 227, 443; the "best people" in, 228, 441; what it means in America, 230; municipal, 231; Republican and Democrat, meaning of, 256; national and municipal, 264; President Roosevelt in, 300 Polo, American, 412 Pooling, railway, 332, 357 Poppycock, 426 Postal laws, 171 Posters, American humour and, 155 Presidency, Mr. Roosevelt and the, 293 Protection, policy of, 65, 245, 253 Publishers, American and English, 222 _Punch_, London, 152, 198 Putnam, Herbert, and H. G. Wells, 93 R Railways, oppression of, by States, 297, 403; pooling by, 332; working agreements in English, 333; English and American attitude towards, contrasted, 334; morality on American, 355; and English, 359; peculation on, 361; and the Standard Oil Co., 392 Reed, E. T., 154 Reich, Dr. Emil, 126 Religious feeling of the two peoples, 353 Re-mount scandal, 341 Representative system, the, 247 Republican party, the, in Philadelphia, 252; corresponds to English conservatives, 256 Reverence, American lack of, 48, 76 Rhodes, Cecil, 319 Rhodes scholarships, 166 River and harbour bills, 249 Robin, the American, 215 Robinson, Philip, on Chicago, 177 Rodin, A., 196 Roman Catholic Church in relation to women, 140 Roosevelt, imaginary telegram from, 16; and the merchant marine, 66; and purity of elections, 229 (note); and post-route doctrine, 290; his influence for good, 293; his commonplace virtues, 293 (note); inventor of the "'fraid strap," 294; "Teddy" or "Theodore," 295; an aristocrat, 295; and the corporations, 296; misrepresentation of, 298; as a politician, 300; his imperiousness, 301; and the negro problem, 305; and wealth, 336; as peacemaker, 445 Rostand, M. E., 196 Ruskin, John, price of his books, 175; on America's lack of castles, 191; on Tories, 257 Russia, England's agreement with, 8 S S---- B----, the Hon., 108 Sailors, British and American, fraternise, 39; Americans as, 63 Schools, American, 170; English, 176 Schurz, Carl, on American intelligence, 2 Schuyler, Montgomery, 103 Scotland, religious feeling in, 354 Sea-wife's sons, the, 187 Senate, the, its place in the Constitution, 286; treaty-making power of, 287; and the House of Lords, 313 Sepoys, blown from cannon, 112 Shakespeare in America, 195 Shaw, Albert, 451 Ship subsidies, 64 Shooting in America, 418 Sky-scrapers, 368 Speculation in America, 387 Smith, Sydney, on women speaking, 79 Society, American, mixed, 182, 442 Soldiers, American and British, in China, 39; compared, 61; material for, in U. S., 75; British, in S. Africa, 75; as farm hands, 186; as Presidents, 187 Solicitors, 393 South, the dying spirit of the, 306 Southerners, in Northern States, 228; lynchings by, 303 Spanish war, the, reasons for, 11; England's feeling in, 60; effect on the American people, 113 Sparks, Edwin E., on frontiersmen, 382 Speech, uniformity of American, 85; American and English compared, 209, 219; purism in, 219 Sport, amateur, in America, 409 Stage, the American, 201 Stamp tax, American dislike of, 398 Stamped paper, 398 Standard Oil Co., 391 State legislatures, corruption in, 235; shortcomings of, 401 States, governments of the, 260; sovereignty of, 261, 285, 290; and English counties, 264 (note); justice in, 401 Steel, American competition in, 375 Steevens, G. W., on Anglo-American alliance, 3; on American feeling for England, 100 Stenographers as hostesses, 132 Stevenson, R. L., on American speech, 85 Strap, the 'fraid, 294 Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord, 310 Style, American and English literary, 221 Superficiality of Americans, 193, 204 Surveyor, the making of a, 69 T _Table d'hôte_ in America, 104 Tammany Hall, 278 Taxes, corrupt assessment of, 242 Thackeray, W. M., on Anglo-American friendship, 1 Thomas, Miss M. Carey, 143 Thoreau, his _Walden_, 157 Throne, the British, as a democratic force, 335 Tin-tacks for Japan, 375 Travis, W. J., 408 Treaties, inability of U. S. to enforce, 263, 285; how made in America, 286 Truesdale, W. H., 359 Trusts, Mr. Roosevelt and the, 295; in England and America, 329, 334, 391; beneficial, 406 U Unit rule, the, 267, 270 United States, the, has become a world-power, 6; in danger of war, 8; power of, 14; expansion of, 24; further from England than England from it, 50; the future of, 90; size of, 94; the equal of Great Britain, 163; unification of, 217; politics in, 227; Congress of, 244; and Italy, 262; and Japan, 263; its treaty relations with other powers, 286; a peerage in, 310; its reckless youth, 323; has sown its wild oats, 324; growth of, 364; commercial power of, 371; a debtor nation, 384 Universities, American and English, 167 Usurpation by the general government, 289 V Van Horne, Sir William, 310 Venezuelan incident, the, 43, 156 Verestschagin, Vasili, 197, 202 Vigilance Committees, 302, 364 Vote, foreign in America, the, 227 Voting, premature, 227 W Wall Street methods, 326 War stores scandal, 341 Washington, Booker, 305 Wealth, President Roosevelt and, 296; its diffusion in America, 330; no counterpoise to, in U. S., 335; purchasing power of, in England and America, 335 (note); prejudice against, 403 Wells, H. G., on American "sense of the State," 89; on the lack of an upper class in America, 309 (note); on trade, 404 West, the feeling of, for the East, 73; English ignorance of, 200; Yankee distrust of, 369 West Indies, transfer to the U. S., 32 West Point, incident at, 41 Whiskey and literature, 175 Wild-fowling, 418 Winter, E. W., 359 Woman, an American, in England, 103; in Westminster Abbey, 132; in a mining camp, 133; on a train, 134 Women, American attitude toward, 119 _sqq._; in the streets of cities, 120; English, in America, 122; English treatment of, 123; the morality of married, 129; adaptability of American, 137; their share in civic life, 137; Anglo-Saxon attitude toward, 140; effect of co-education on, 143; culture of American, 182; musical knowledge of American, 198 _World_, the N. Y., 342 (note) Y Yankee, the real, 369; earls, 440 Yellow press, the, 327, 340, 342 (note) TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The following words use an oe ligature in the original: manoeuvres phoenixes The following corrections have been made to the text: Page 85: the Americans _homogeneous_[original has _homoeogeneous_] over a much larger Page 101: Americans will protest against being called[original has call] a homogeneous Page 118: It is less offensive than[original has that] the mature Page 153: Englishmen do not know the meaning of a joke.