Word: seabrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook's 'jungle Ways...
Author Miller took cannibalism much more easily in his stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags and bunting for celebrations, the natives of New Guinea string up their victims' vertebrae...
...Author Seabrook got the idea by looking around at his foreign-born neighbors in the Hudson River's Rhinebeck Valley, where he owns an eight-acre farm., In his boyhood days in Maryland and Kansas these neighbors would have been called dumb Swedes, squareheads, Dagos, Polacks, Heinies, wops, troublemakers, agitators and so forth. In Rhinebeck they were just neighborly Americans, Republicans, Democrats. Seabrook had a hunch that elsewhere in the U. S. the foreign born were equally good citizens. He decided to take a look for himself...
...volcanic." In the Little Italics of Manhattan and California he interviewed priests, millionaires, anarchists, labor leaders-all good Americans, who admired Roosevelt and Mussolini as they once admired Washington and Garibaldi. Again he found few authentic Reds, only Latin sound & fury. The central fact about an Italian, says Seabrook, is that he is "a go-getter, interested more in construction, material welfare and money than in anything else." Of German Americans, he estimated, only 1% are obtrusively Nazi. He calls the Germans "the most important, and most admirable, and generally loyal, but least lovable of all our foreign-language race...
...anti-foreign alarmists in general Author Seabrook wags his finger: "You can find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...