Modes and Morals: By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. (Inhalt: The New Simplicity.- Dress and the Woman.- Caviare on Principle.- The Extirpation of Culture.- Fashions in Men.- The Newest Woman.- Tabu and Temperament.- The Boundaries of Truth.- Miss Alcott's New England.- The Sensual Ear.- British Novelists, Ltd.- The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling.)Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 278 psl. |
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... English and almost to- tally unfrequented by Americans ) in getting the chambermaid to procure me a slop - jar . The hotel was much too British to run to numbers of private baths . Hence the crying need of a slop - jar . The maid ...
... English and almost to- tally unfrequented by Americans ) in getting the chambermaid to procure me a slop - jar . The hotel was much too British to run to numbers of private baths . Hence the crying need of a slop - jar . The maid ...
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... English and French houses are cold ; but ( climate apart ) nothing like so cold as Ameri- can houses would be if Americans depended on open fires . For in England or France there are ten people to make the fires , to one in America . We ...
... English and French houses are cold ; but ( climate apart ) nothing like so cold as Ameri- can houses would be if Americans depended on open fires . For in England or France there are ten people to make the fires , to one in America . We ...
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... English lodgings are all very well , espe- cially for a solitary creature , it is a painful business for a large family to eat three meals a day in a room which has to be lived in other- wise . All people may not have the prejudice ...
... English lodgings are all very well , espe- cially for a solitary creature , it is a painful business for a large family to eat three meals a day in a room which has to be lived in other- wise . All people may not have the prejudice ...
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... English households in the outposts of empire , dependent on another and a stupid race for the satisfaction of their needs . Southern luxury lay in having a score of inadequate menials to keep the masters as comfortable as three or four ...
... English households in the outposts of empire , dependent on another and a stupid race for the satisfaction of their needs . Southern luxury lay in having a score of inadequate menials to keep the masters as comfortable as three or four ...
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... English literature . An astonish- ing number of boys and girls have read nothing worth reading except the books that are in the entrance requirements . An increasing propor- tion of the sons and daughters of the prosper- ous are ...
... English literature . An astonish- ing number of boys and girls have read nothing worth reading except the books that are in the entrance requirements . An increasing propor- tion of the sons and daughters of the prosper- ous are ...
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