THE TYPICAL AMERICAN
“For years the spectacles people have been building up a fabulous native character of whom we have all been dimly aware; a clean-cut, clean shaven American who can write a mean insurance policy, make an approach shot spin, and American who pays his bills on the tenth of the month and smiles at the conductor when he takes his ticket, an American who works at a flat-top desk bare of everything except the paper immediately under consideration, a man who is respectful to his stenographer and kindly toward inferiors. He is the octagonal-glass type. He is not the bone rim type, who is apt to be unreliable; and he is not the be-ribbon-ad-pince-nez type, who is too tony for times of great national peril. He is the octagonal type, and London is him—or, if you must have a Republican pronoun, ‘he.’ ” —The New Yorker.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3802, 31 August 1936, Page 6
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147THE TYPICAL AMERICAN Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3802, 31 August 1936, Page 6
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