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... ă e şti mai preten ţios, po ţi face o extensie pân ă-n Hawaii (unde olteano-americanul nostru fu chiar de dou ă ori!). Dar, cum “anonimul din B ăl... ...ii/arti ştii” exila ţi sunt mor ţi. Rar când r ăzbate vreunul. Pe continentul american, lumea nu se uit ă la art ă nici cu dosul!... Celebrele pl... ...re. Îi venise familia mai târziu (nevasta şi trei feti ţe), fiindc ă Ambasada American ă încurcase actele. Cum se întâmplase şi cu dosarul lui Nea C... ...arul pe care se inscrip ţionaser ă numele “superstar”-urilor cinematografiei americane. Studiouri, studiouri. A fost şi Stelic ă la un concurs de ... ...mi-l d ădea exemplu Corduneanu în fiecare scrisoare, fiindc ă în lag ărul din Germania reu şise s ă- şi treac ă doctoratul, în vreme ce eu prin Turci... ...i aceast ă asociere hibrid ă, şi c ă poporul român este format din maghiari, germani şi ţigani (!) – pus s ă tot jigneasc ă, trimi ţându-ne la zidu... ... cultural ă francez ă, iar dezlipirea ei de România ar trece-o sub influen ţă germano-maghiar ă. Mi-a p ărut r ău, nu voiam s ă bag zâzanie, dar m ă... ...nescu München. 17.06.1992. Nici nu ştiusem când trecusem frontiera franco- german ă... Curat, r ăcoros, tramvai. Mai l ărgime pe str ăzi decât la... .... Întâlnesc un albanez din Elve ţia (zicea c ă acolo câ ştig ă mai mult ca-n Germania)... Cu rucsacu-n spate, pe str ăzile mücheneze. Se r ăcorise....

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... “I daresay not,” rejoined the other. “Oh, I say!” cried his comrade. This animated discussion was checked by their arrival at the hotel, which had be... ...der of the young English- men unfolded his napkin. His companion took no notice whatever of this decla- ration. “I say,” he resumed in a moment, “I su... ...icent young man with a waxed mustache, and a shirtfront adorned with diamond buttons, who every now and then dropped an absent glance over their multi... ...k that day for En- gland; and then it occured to them that they might find an asylum nearer at hand. The cave of Aeolus became their ideal of comfort,... ...So just please to consider yourselves my property; and if anyone should try to appropriate you, please to say, ‘Hands off; too late for the market.’ B... ...has just alighted at the Charing Cross Hotel. He was a slim, pale youth, of the most amiable disposition, famous for 44 An International Episode the ...

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...ees in the wet grass helping a toad in difficulties. If it’s true, as some German fellow has said, that without phosphorus there is no thought, it is ... ...at three dollars a day in America, and no military service to do. “But the American Kaiser would not take every-body. Oh, no! He himself had a great d... ...o out of the room sev- eral times to work the telegraph on his behalf. The American Kaiser engaged him at last at three dollars, he being young and st... ...ad tried for shelter in the bay on that awful, blind night, had rammed the German ship amidships (a breach—as one of the divers told me afterwards— ‘t... ... strug-gled with Dante for years), coming to see Miss Swaffer, tried their German and Italian on him from the doorway. They retreated, just the least ...

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...I am for England and England only, John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. I am for Japan and Japan only, Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. I am for Germany first and America afterwards, Oscar Fischer, the German-American pronounced. I am for America first, America only, America always, Pamela Van Tale, the American girl, declared. They were all right except the German-Am...

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...This book examines the German air force (GAF) monograph project, also known as the Karlsruhe project, through which the US Air Force employed former Luftwaffe generals to record the history of World War II from the German perspective....

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...1 AN OVERVIEW OF AMERICAN WORLD WAR II OFFICIAL MILITARY HISTORY PROJECTS . . . .1 The von Rohden Project (1945–47) . . . . . . . 4 The Naval Historical Team, Bremerhaven (1949–52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The US A...

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...s far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. To the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi....

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...t sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can... ... the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, i...

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...before. This wild spreading weed was perhaps of deci- sive importance; the Germans at any rate were attempting to make it a cultivated flower. There w... ...al, sacrifice, and serenity of the home population; all were affected. The German culti- vation of opinion began long before the war; it is still the ... ... the most systematic and, because of the psychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is ce... ...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...hat they do not constitute a positive and de- fined propaganda such as the Germans maintain. The Ger- man propaganda is simple, because its ends are s... ...its ends are simple; as- sertions of the moral elevation and loveliness of Germany; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and C... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...ce to the initiatives of Mr. Diplock; they have approximated rather to the American caterpillar. As I suspected when first I heard of these devices, t...

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...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...’t only us neither. There’s the Japanese; you bet they got, it too—and the Germans!” The soldier stood with his legs very wide apart, and filled his p... ...a leading hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. Th... ...!” This speech it was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his br... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...emed to matter to Mr. Bert Smallways that a newspaper placard proclaimed:— GERMANY DENOUNCES THE MONROE DOCTRINE. AMBIGUOUS ATTITUTDE OF JAPAN. WHAT W... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ... AN OFFER. LATEST BETTING FROM TEHERAN. or this:— WILL AMERICA FIGHT? ANTI-GERMAN RIOT IN BAGDAD. THE MUNICIPAL SCANDALS AT DAMASCUS. MR. BUTTERIDGE’S... ... the French an invincible rifle, now the Japanese a new explosive, now the Americans a submarine that would drive every ironclad from the seas. Each t...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...nization. Through their want of intelligent direction the great “Trust” of American ironmasters, a gang of ener- getic, narrow-minded furnace owners, ... ...seum by look- ing up the caricatures of capital and labor that adorned the German and American socialistic papers of the old time. 36 In the Days of ... ...oused from my egotistical broodings to wider interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irration... ...g and pervading some new region of thought, and that was the antagonism of Germany and Great Britain. When I think of that growing proportion of reade... ...d fifty million other persons scattered about the globe, and here were the Germans over against us, fifty-six millions, in a state of confusion no whi... ...e obvious waste and evil, that would result from a war between England and Germany, whether England shattered Germany or was smashed and overwhelmed, ...

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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...bead-work, in different layers. She bowed to various acquaintances— mostly Americans in uniform, whom she had known in Paris. She smiled to Lady Cochr... ...ng?” “Ah, but a civil war would be different. I’ve no interest in fighting Germans. But a civil war would be different.” “That’s a fact, it would,” sa... ...h the privates, and the same with this Englishman as with a Frenchman or a German or an Italian. Lilly had sat in a cowshed listening to a youth in th... ...ng out, in Calabria, un- der the moon: he had sat in a farm-kitchen with a German 113 D. H. Lawrence prisoner: and every time it was the same thing, ... .... No good at all. But when you had to get out of the trench and go for the Germans he was perfect—perfect—It all came to him then, at the crisis, and ... ...’t stand bombs. You could tell the difference between our machines and the Germans. Ours was a steady noise—drrrrrrrr!—but their’s was heavy, drrrrRUR...

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...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867. This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds t... ...s they would know this almost universal language. I knew it—as well as the German language—well enough to read it fluently, but not to speak it correc... ...to take, when Conseil said: “If master will permit me, I will relate it in German.” But in spite of the elegant terms and good accent of the narrator,... ...n.” But in spite of the elegant terms and good accent of the narrator, the German language had no success. At last, nonplussed, I tried to remember my... ... out for the twentieth time. “We speak to those rogues in French, English, German, and Latin, and not one of them has the politeness to answer!” “Calm... ...ty of the two strangers is hard to determine. Neither English, French, nor German, that is quite certain. However, I am inclined to think that the com...

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... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...s and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavians, a German or two, and one Russian; all now belonging for ten ... ... and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with generous app... ...son, entirely inno- cent of English, adding heartily to the general effect. And perhaps the German mason is but a fair example of the sin- cerity with... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ... for the hero spoke not one word of English. I got on with him lumberingly enough in broken German, and learned from his own lips that he had been an ... ... this man had travelled over most of the world, and enjoyed wonderful opportunities on some American rail- road, with two dollars a shift and double p... ...he fire kindles again, and the night is witness of our laughter as he imitates Span- iards, Germans, Englishmen, picture-dealers, all eccentric ways o...

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...asin belongs to by the make of it. Name it in horse talk, and could do it in American if I had speech. I know some of the Indian signs — the signs the... ...A scout horse that has a reputation does not play with it. My mother was all American — no alkali spider about her, I can tell you; she was of the bes... ... years among her playmates here; she has a good work ing use of governess — German and Italian. It is true that there is always a faint foreign fragr... ...’s only disputing, and bragging, the way children do. They want her to be an American, but she can’t be any thing but a Spaniard, she says. You see, ... ..., scullery maids, doubtful women, dudes, gamblers, beggars, loafers, tramps, American ladies, gentlemen, preachers, En glish ladies, gentlemen, preac... ...erican ladies, gentlemen, preachers, En glish ladies, gentlemen, preachers, German ditto, French ditto, and so on and so on, all the world represente...

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...mo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Continent), the novel and the story have nothing in common, neithe... ...n with that feeling of superiority the success of our cause inspired in us Americans. I suppose I re- ally despised him because he was an old Castilia... ...rds made himself master by surprise of two more ships, one English and one American. “It was rumoured at the time that he dreamed of setting up a navy... ...n island as big as a small province, lying in the estuary of a great South American river. It is wild and not beautiful, but the grass growing on its ... ...n and things nursed by Colonel Feraud. Recruiting his strength in a little German town for three weeks, Colonel D’Hubert was surprised to discover wit... ...and tolerable to the young lady’s uncle—an old émigré lately returned from Germany, and pervading, cane in hand, a lean ghost of the ancien régime, th... ...reat reputation for elegance in the fit of ladies’ shoes) in another small German town, wore silk stockings on his lean shanks, low shoes with silver ...

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..., Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls. Neverthe... ...e of the 21 Herman Melville seats of their common ancestor, a hero in the German wars of the seventeenth century, in which poem occur the lines, “Thi... ... fore-chains— the one so abruptly ended there by Billy—noth ing especially german to the story occurred until the events now about to be narrated. Els... ...e British captives, living trophies, made to march in the Roman triumph of Germanicus. Quite as much so as those later barbarians, young men probably,...

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...have lost all idea of respect for whites. What we want is a man-of-war – a German, if we could – they know how to manage Kanakas.” “I am tabooed, then... ...hing he did was to count his money; the sum was exact – forty-nine dollars American money, and one Chili piece. “That looks like the truth,” said Keaw... ...save my lover. What is this you say about a cent? But all the world is not American. In England they have a piece they call a farthing, which is about...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...and East,” for which The Cen- tury paid the largest price ever given by an American maga- zine for a story. The following year Mr. Kipling married Mr.... ...r, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortune of about a million. Her maternal grand- fa... ... other country for the American public speaker to trample upon. France has Germany; we have Russia; for Italy Austria is provided; and the humblest Pa... ...ange colors, and ridges of glaring, staring white. A moon-faced trooper of German extraction—never was park so carefully patrolled—came up to inform u...

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..."The evolution of American science itself, from empiricism to a more German, theoretical approach to problem solution, is only indirectly addressed through the evolution of airpower. The biographical approach, emphasizing scientific and techno...

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...Chapter I. The Native Americans. The Native American communities near Rapidan were made of "long houses", woven stick huts covered with grass mats or tree bark. Native American women raised corn, squash and pumpkins and gathered several hundred ...

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...examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germany. She has also been forced to rethink her definition of 'friend'. If we learn something from someone that helps us to grow and develop as human beings, becoming m...

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...olent insanity? 12 The Mother A child of East Prussian woods and forests, a German outpost dwarfed by the Russian giant nearby. Skiing to school in ... ...ffed with bullets and shells but with Russian prisoners' coats, destined for German soldiers at the front, then by train to Prague... But a city in tu... ...enzied revolt they meet - Czechs rebelling against wartime oppressors - so German barracks they seek, a refuge from fires and shooting, till a cease... ...tifling heat, jeered on by locals offering poisoned water to the sun-parched German throats, whilst the brother's shiny, new officers' boots, two size... ...ffering, silent feet. 15 The town of Pilsen in sight, forty-odd miles from German borders. Soldiers there, odd-looking helmets, the Americans, how c... ...rty-odd miles from German borders. Soldiers there, odd-looking helmets, the Americans, how come? 'The war's over,' she hears. Relief overwhelmed by f...