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Four brilliantly colored feather capes and three feather war helmets, the "crown jewels" of native Hawaiian kings before the discovery of the islands by Captain Cook in 1773, have recently been squired by the Peabody Museum. These articles, with others already procured, have been placed on public display in a comprehensive grouping for the first time...
This Harvard collection of Hawaiian feather work is one of the finest in the world, and is known to represent pure native artistry, since the items were brought back to America by sailing captains who visited the islands before the influx of foreign elements...
Best songs: You Hit the Spot, I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze, Rhythmetic...
...they are a condiment sparingly used. "Our economists of today theorize about the 'inevitability of gradualness.' Our ancestors of the less cerebral 15th Century meant much the same thing, but they might say 'Little by little the cat eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...
...paintings of Mr. Martin Mower. And I was exceedingly pleased to learn that other Houses are planning similar loan exhibitions of well known painters. Yet I do earnestly hope that similarity of activities among the Houses will not be encouraged: For, to reinterpret the old proverb, birds of a feather, really never get anyplace...