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willingness to "make shift" with what we have that I suspect 

 communists and fascists alike find distinctly irritating. Finally, 

 there is an American humor; though this is unknown to Broad- 

 way and to Hollywood. Perhaps, for that fact, it is all the 

 more precious, like the cypripedium aureale, or the fringed 

 blue gentian. 



These are the ingredients of that flavor which is distinctly 

 American. Like the flavor of the American corn, it is too good 

 for us to suffer any social or political process, whether of our 

 own or of foreign invention, to mill it out of us. 



