The British View of Religious America (Literary Digest, 1913)
A short article about the observations of an English clergyman found in "The Christian World" (London) as to that distinct brand of Christianity practiced in the United States in the early Twentieth Century:"...Christianity in America is divided into two camps. The one is orthodox. It's orthodoxy is apt to degenerate into the senile attachment to the letter of Scripture...There is a lack of mental breadth, of intellectual enlightenment, about the members of this school which is a little disheartening to one who is in agreement with them on the central matters...The other school seems to have sacrificed almost everything which makes Christianity distinct from a temporary philosophy. It's members have the bad habit of preaching eugenics or sociology in place of the Gospel. They appear to be afraid of the great epistles and the nobler passages of the Gospels, and are apt to speak in terms which would suggest that there was nothing distinctive in Christianity which can make it an absolute and universal faith." In 1925 these two groups would go head to head in a Tennessee courtroom debating Darwin's Theory of Evolution and its place in the schoolhouse.
| America Vilified in the European Press (Literary Digest, 1928)
"Envy and admiration as well as ridicule and praise are found in the many articles the European press devoted to this country. Our big business astonishes them, our so-called lack of culture inspires thinly veiled contempt, while our homicide records lead some rather irascible English critics to speak of the United States as 'the Land of Liberty - for the murderer.'
Yet for all their contempt there was one thing they couldn't live without: click here to read an article about how much the Europeans loved American silent comedies.
| Things Americain in France (Literary Digest, 1927)
Whether for good or for ill, the American people have left their thumbprint on much of the French language - the liberal sprinkling of the adjective "Americain" was ever present in 1927, as it is today. This article seeks to explain the meanings and origins of such French expressions as:
*"Eleve a L'Americain",
*"Coup de Poing Américain"
*"Homard a l'Americaine"
*"Rase a L'Americaine"
*"Vol à l'Américaine"
*"Oncle D'Amerique"
-among other various phrases inspired by the free and the brave. "Somebody has said, nations can be judged by the epithets they provoke..."
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| American Womanhood Slandered (Review of Reviews, 1910)
This 1910 article rambles on for two columns and offers the reader nothing but nasty, vile insulting remarks regarding the character and appearance of American women. The article lays bare the low opinions conceived by an assortment of well-traveled, high-born, hot-headed-Hindus from way-down-East-India-way. AND the abuse of American women and their free press wasn't enough for them; they had to drag American men into their tirade as well:"The women of your big, vast, young country, I confess, disappoint me...they are less chic, they are tactless, they are ignorant...I understand that some American women make the proposal of marriage. That I do not doubt after watching them make themselves 'agreeable' to a man at dinner. I am not surprised that American men do not make love well. The women save them the trouble."
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