Here the Whipples have always gone to war for their country--Revolutionary War and 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American--Harvey D.was in that.

Didn't do much fighting, but he was belligerent enough.

And now this son of his sets back and talks about his reactions! What I say--he's a Whipple in name only." "He's educated," protested Wilbur, quick to defend this brother, even should he cheat him out of the good plain fighting he meant to do.
"Educated!" Sharon imitated a porpoise without knowing it.

"Educated out of books! All any of that rabble rout of his knows is what they read secondhand.

They don't know people.