The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National MindMencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
American wit and humor; National characteristics, American
That if, while promenading, a girl and her escort walk on either side of
a water hydrant or other obstruction instead of both walking 'round it
on the same side, they will have a misunderstanding before the month is
over.
Sec.227
That it is unlikely that a man and woman who enter a hotel without
baggage after 10 P.M. and register are man and wife.
Sec.228
That all country girls have clear, fresh, rosy complexions.
Sec.229
That chorus girls spend the time during the entr'-actes sitting around
naked in their dressing-rooms telling naughty stories.
Sec.230
That many soldiers' lives have been saved in battle by bullets lodging
in Bibles which they have carried in their breast pockets.
Sec.231
That each year the Fourth of July exodus to the bathing beaches on the
part of persons from the city establishes a new record.
Sec.232
That women with red hair or wide nostrils are possessed of especially
passionate natures.
Sec.233
That three-fourths of the inhabitants of Denver are lungers who have
gone there for the mountain air.
Sec.234
That, when sojourning in Italy, one always feels very lazy.
Sec.235
That the people of Johnstown, Pa., still talk of nothing but the flood.
Sec.236
That there is no finer smell in the world than that of burning autumn
leaves.
Sec.237
That Jules Verne anticipated all the great modern inventions.
Sec.238
That a man is always a much heartier eater than a woman.
Sec.239
That all the girls in Mr. Ziegfeld's "Follies" are extraordinarily
seductive, and that at least 40 head of bank cashiers are annually
guilty of tapping the till in order to buy them diamonds and Russian
sables.
Sec.240
That a college sophomore is always a complete ignoramus.
Sec.241
That rubbers in wet weather are a preventive of colds.
Sec.242
That if one eats oysters in a month not containing an "r," one is
certain to get ptomaine poisoning.
Sec.243
That a woman with a 7-1/2-C foot always tries to squeeze it into a
4-1/2-A shoe.
Sec.244
That no shop girl ever reads anything but Laura Jean Libbey and the
cheap sex magazines.
Sec.245
That there is something peculiar about a man who wears a red tie.
Sec.246
That all Bolsheviki and Anarchists have whiskers.
Sec.247
That all the millionaires of Pittsburgh are very loud fellows, and raise
merry hell with the chorus girls every time they go to New York.
Sec.248
That a man of fifty-five is always more experienced than a man of
thirty-five.
Sec.249
That new Bermuda potatoes come from Bermuda.
Sec.250
That the boy who regularly stands at the foot of his class in school
always turns out in later life to be very successful.
Sec.251
That the ornamental daggers fashioned out of one hundred dollars' worth
of Chinese coins strung together, which one buys in Pekin or Hong Kong
for three dollars and a quarter, are fashioned out of one hundred
dollars' worth of Chinese coins.
Sec.252
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