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...quarter-century ago, ladies developed an enthusiasm for huge, beplumed headgear called "Merry Widow" hats. Their daughters now go in for cranial fillips known as Empress Eugenie hats, but The-Merry Widow, whence came their moth- ers' mode, is still tuneful and gay. Perhaps it is even more tuneful now, for a haunting nostalgia has crept into the lovely melodies of Franz Lehar...
Paris last week talked of Empress Eugénie and of ostriches in the same breath. Historians and ornithologists had nothing to do with the case. Couturiers and stylists were pronouncing la mode for autumn and early winter. It was the official Fall Opening...
...Great changes are taking place in Greenland, not only economically but also in the mode of life of the inhabitants. Igloos are gradually disappearing as the Eskimos build neat wooden houses to take their place. Flowers are being
...made to re-create the conditions that existed in California in 1846 when that Mexican territory was annexed to the United States. The plot is concerned with the efforts of an old feudal family to withstand the introduction of Americans and their ways into their set and radically different mode of life. Barthelmess, as the young Mexican of noble birth, turns outlaw as the result of a beating he receives at the hands of a government official, and roams the countryside trying to preserve his ancestral ranch, and indigenous qualities of his people...
...distorted mirrors of man's mind on which are recorded the images of external objects. One cannot quarrel with the author's competent interpretation of Alken's method, but there is a difference of opinion as to the value of this type compared to the behavioristic mode of writing in which the actions of a character are described and explained from without. Subjective writing is very effective for that limited number of individuals who react to external stimuli in the same way that the author or his characters do. However it seems likely that in future ages it will...