Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

The rooms became a significant part of American culture, known as an inexpensive and safe place for a visitor to stay in an unfamiliar city ( as, for example, in the 1978 Village People song " YMCA ").

They speak with an old Southern American accent taught to them by their previous visitor, the dead man, Professor Rhutt Betlah ( a wordplay on Rhett Butler ) from Birmingham, Alabama, who had discovered their valley during the late 19th century.

One of his final reminiscences about his literary life occurred during an interview with Stephen Morison, Jr., a frequent visitor and friend who was teaching at the American School of Tangier at the time.

Ewart Hall was established in 1928, named for William Dana Ewart, the father of an American visitor to the campus, who made a gift of $ 100, 000 towards the cost of construction on the condition that she remain anonymous.

Only the Pectoral Sandpiper is a more common American shorebird visitor to Europe.

Kilroy, a young American visitor, fulfills some of the functions of the play's narrator, as does Gutman, ( named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from The Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in Casablanca ) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage.

Critchley quoted one journalist's witticism " I have seen the future and it smirks " ( a reference to the famous line " I have seen the future and it works " written by Lincoln Steffens, an American visitor to Stalin's USSR in 1921 ).

The London Standard saw the capture as “ but one of a series of premeditated blows aimed at this country … to involve it in a war with the Northern States .” A letter from an American visitor written to Seward declared, “ The people are frantic with rage, and were the country polled I fear 999 men out of 1, 000 would declare for immediate war .” A member of Parliament stated that unless America set matters right the British flag should “ be torn into shreds and sent to Washington for use of the Presidential water-closets .”

In 1976 the club saw what could be said to be its most prestigious visitor when the local Member of Parliament and then Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland invited the then American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to watch the Mariners play Gillingham.

The Jim Beam American Stillhouse is an expansive visitor ’ s center at the Jim Beam Distillery.

Muench was the most powerful American Catholic and Vatican representative in Allied-occupied Germany and subsequently in West Germany from 1946 to 1959 as the liaison between the U. S. Office of Military Government and the German Catholic Church in the American occupation zone ( 1946 – 1949 ), Pope Pius XII's apostolic visitor to Germany ( 1946 – 1947 ), the Vatican relief officer in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany ( 1947 – 1949 ), regent in Kronberg ( 1949 – 1951 ), as well as nuncio to Germany.

An American visitor pillages most of it and ships it home –" The richest products of the forest ".

As one pleased visitor commented, the human zoo exhibit displayed " the race narrative of odd peoples who mark time while the world advances, and of savages made, by American methods, into civilized workers.

After the book had gained wide readership, the term " Ugly American " came to be used to refer to the " loud and ostentatious " type of visitor in another country, rather than the " plain looking folks, who are not afraid to ' get their hands dirty ' like Homer Atkins " to whom the book itself referred.

For example articles published in Argosy ( an American pulp magazine ) and either authored or coauthored by Robert F. Marx, a professional diver and visitor to the Bimini Road, argued that the Bimini Road is an artificial structure.

In American English this is extended to mean anything which might interest visitors: the British English equivalent is visitor attraction.

Upon entering a person walks into a large visitor center which has extensive information on animals indigenous to the North American deciduous forests and wetlands, and a Brook Trout exhibit.

She listened to American rock and roll and jazz records and was a frequent visitor at the Santa Tecla and the Taverna Messicana clubs of Milan, both known for promoting rock and roll.

Caught up in the wave of rock and roll sweeping across Italy in 1958, Mina listened to American records and was a frequent visitor at the Derby Club, the Santa Tecla, and the Taverna Messicana clubs of Milan, which promoted rock and roll music.

Today a National Historic Landmark District, the 22-acre site and remaining structures serve as the main visitor center for the Richmond National Battlefield Park of the National Park Service, as well as the location of a private museum, The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar.

One visitor remarked “ To my surprise I saw, in a museum in Nanjing, a tribute to Ward — a large headstone bearing Ward's name, put in place by the American Legion on May 29, 1923 .“ ( Maher )

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer.

Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.

The apparatus used by gymnasts was once a common sight in American gyms, but about 1930 it was dropped in favor of games.

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

I once tried to describe to a very well-known American intellectual the conditions among Negroes in the South.

Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.

Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.

The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979.

Every American League team has appeared in the ALCS at least once.

The North American beaver population was once more than 60 million, but as of 1988 was 6 – 12 million.

Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Some bets are listed more than once below – the most common payout in North American casinos is listed first, followed by other known variants.

* 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person ( b. 1880 )

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

On February 23, 1877, Abbott made her American operatic début in New York, once again portraying Marie.

In the American game, once the play has started, eligible receivers can become ineligible depending on how the play develops.

The only exception is the Jewish American officer, who is shown as both hyper-intelligent and very unscrupulous, which Bartov noted seems to imply that the real tragedy of World War II was the Nazis did not get a chance to exterminate all of the Jews, who have now returned with Germany's defeat to once more exploit the German people.