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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... talks of the difficulty of eating grape - nuts on principle . The real drawback to " the simple life " is that it is not simple . If you are living it , you positively can do nothing else . There is not time . For the simple life ...
... talks of the difficulty of eating grape - nuts on principle . The real drawback to " the simple life " is that it is not simple . If you are living it , you positively can do nothing else . There is not time . For the simple life ...
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... talk French , I should think her a silly snob . Are we not all , economically , at one another's mercy ? Of what does enthusiastic living of the " simple " life make us independent , save of a few hard- learned and precious lessons of ...
... talk French , I should think her a silly snob . Are we not all , economically , at one another's mercy ? Of what does enthusiastic living of the " simple " life make us independent , save of a few hard- learned and precious lessons of ...
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... talk about culture , among educated people in America , during the last months , than there had been for years . To ... talking about culture once more ; rehabilitating it , if only for the sake of denying that the Germans , by and large ...
... talk about culture , among educated people in America , during the last months , than there had been for years . To ... talking about culture once more ; rehabilitating it , if only for the sake of denying that the Germans , by and large ...
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... talk about it who have it not . I should really like to make a plea for the temporary reversal of the rule . Indeed , I think we are getting to a point where we are so little " cultured " that we can really afford to talk about it ...
... talk about it who have it not . I should really like to make a plea for the temporary reversal of the rule . Indeed , I think we are getting to a point where we are so little " cultured " that we can really afford to talk about it ...
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... talks in æons , but keeps its eye well screwed to the microscope . The geol- ogic ages are dealt with by pick and hammer and reduced to slides , and the lore of the stars has become a pure matter of mathematical formulæ . Human welfare ...
... talks in æons , but keeps its eye well screwed to the microscope . The geol- ogic ages are dealt with by pick and hammer and reduced to slides , and the lore of the stars has become a pure matter of mathematical formulæ . Human welfare ...
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