W. H. D. Rouse
speaker
2,788 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
W. H. D. Rouse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In no time at all, as it seemed, another and more formidable tentacle had folded round me in the shape of two interviewers.
How these men had got on board, and how my own particular friend had got on board, I knew not, for we were yet far from quayside.
I had been hearing all my life about the sublime American institution of the interview.
I had been warned by Americans of its piquant dangers, and here I was, suddenly up against it.
Beneath a casual and jaunty exterior, I trembled.
I wanted to sit, but dared not.
They stood.
I stood.
These two men, however, were adepts.
They had the better qualities of American dentists.
Obviously they spent their lives in meeting notorieties on inbound steamers and made naught of it.
They were middle aged, disillusioned, tepidly polite, conscientious, and rapid.
They knew precisely what they wanted and how to get it.
Having got it, they raised their hats and went.
Their printed stories were brief, quite unpretentious, and inoffensive, though one of them did let out that the most salient part of me was my teeth, and the other did assert that I behaved like a schoolboy.
Doubtless the result of timidity trying to be dignified, this alleged schoolboyishness was
I liked these men, but they gave me an incomplete idea of the race of interviewers in the United States.
There is a variety of interviewers very different from them.
I am, I think, entitled to consider myself a fairly first class authority on all varieties of interviewer, not only in New York, but in sundry other great cities.
My initiation was brief, but it was thorough.
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