Take a bit of cold weather in winter---really cold, biting weather and just notice how Americans kick and worry about it.

Take any time when we have a succession of rainy days, and notice how Americans growl over the continued wet.

Whatever happens that is in the least disagreeable, see what a row we Americans raise about it." "I imagine it's a nervous vent for the race," advanced Dave Darrin.
"But why must Americans have a nervous vent ?" Dick inquired.
"In other words, what business have we with diseased nerves! Don't you imagine that all our kicking, many times every day of our lives, makes the need of nervous vent more and more pronounced ?" "Oh, I don't know about that," argued Tom.

"I hate to hear any fellow talk disparagingly about his own country or its people.
It doesn't sound just right.

In war time, or during any great national disaster or calamity, the Americans who do things always seem to rise to the occasion.