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Robert Smith ,“Yank” to most everybody, is a crude, muscular, hard-drinking, hairychested, coal stoker from The Bronx. He's a kind of everyman, simple, who understands his place in this world. Working in the bowels of a ship, he is confronted by Mildred Douglas, an heiress curious how the “other half” live. Horrified by the scene, she faints. Yank is confronted by the way the world sees him, as a unrefined, hairy ape. Obsessed with changing his world, he is jailed for causing a ruckus in a church on Fifth Avenue. He is soon thrown out of his union for suspicions of being a spy.see less
Robert Smith ,“Yank” to most everybody, is a crude, muscular, hard-drinking, hairychested, coal stoker from The Bronx. He's a kind of everyman, simple, who understands his place in this world. Working in the bowels of a ship, he is confronted by Mildred Douglas, an heiress curious how the “other half” live. Horrified by the scene, she faints. Yank is confronted by...see more