UN-AMERICAN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Un-American

... universal habit of tossing gold and silver, railroad watches and real-estate bonds, or anything else of whatever value, indifferently on the first clear corner that presents itself. Precaution is troublesome and un-American. It seems a fling at the character of your fellow bachelors—and in the vast majority of Zone cases it would be. But it is in no sense surprising that among the many thousands that swarm upon the Isthmus there should be ...

— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck