Word: beret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the present volume, a sequel, the author shows himself less novelist than professor intent upon the interesting phenomenon of the second generation. He contrasts Beret, reluctant Norwegian immigrant of the earlier volume, with Beret's son Peder, who is impatient with the language, religion and customs of his mother's country. Peder insists upon lessons in English, Bible in English, chatter in English with the Irish neighbors a mile or so. down the road. Then suddenly, fearfully, Beret knows Peder loves the Irish neighbor's daughter. Beret's fury is terrific her sudden capitulation beautiful...
...President Coolidge received the trustees of Lions International convening and sight-seeing in Washington. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who were in town trying to adjust a $1,090,273.56 back-tax dispute with the Treasury Department. Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) did the conferring. Mr. Fairbanks wore a beret, played golf...
...small, close-fitting hats, share the approval of the French fashion makers. A pronounced slant downward on the right side, occasionally obscuring the vision of the right eye, is a mark of a correct hat, as is the bonnet shape, and an imitation of the French peasant's beret...
Further down towards University Hall an original gentleman trots along in a beret, very proud of the scornful looks and sotto-voce remarks wasted on him. Up the steps of Widener stamps an immaculate professor in an equally immaculate light grey felt on his way to the furthermost stacks of the Library...
GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...