W. H. D. Rouse

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A Short History of the United States · Your United States Impressions Of A First Visit - Arnold Bennett · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

There are several different ones.

What could be more different from this than the downtown Broadway of Trinity Church and the crowded skyscrapers?

And even this Broadway could differ from itself, as I knew later on an election night.

I was overpowered by Broadway.

You must not expect me to talk, I said, and

We drew up in front of a huge hotel and went into the bar, huge and gorgeous to match, shimmering with white bartenders and a variegated population of men about town.

I had never seen such a bar.

Two Polands and a Scotch eyeball was the order, of which geographical language I understood not a word.

See the fresco, my particular friend suggested, and from his tone, at once modestly content and artificially careless, I knew that that nursery rhyme fresco was one of the sights of the pleasure quarter of New York, and that I ought to admire it.

Well, I did admire it.

I found it rather fine and a posit, but the free lunch encounter as a sight took my fancy more.

Here it was, the free lunch encounter of which the European reads, generously loaded, and much freer than the air.

Have something?

I would not.

They could shame me into drinking coffee, but they could not shame me into eating corned beef and granite biscuits at eleven o'clock at night.

The Poland water sufficed me.

We swept perilously off again into the welter.

That same evening three of my steamer companions were thrown out of a rickety taxi into a hole in the ground in the middle of New York, with the result that one of them spent a week in a hotel bed under doctor and nurse.

But I went scathless, such are the hazards of life.

We arrived at a terminus, and it was a great terminus, a great terminus is an inhospitable place, and just here, in the perfection of the manner in which my minutest comfort was studied and provided for, I began to appreciate the significance of American hospitality, that combination of eager good nature

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