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...refuge from reality she took to books. Her heterodox hair and her heterogeneous reading made her "a rather embittered little philosopher" at 16. But Romance soon reared its tousled head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven...
...MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found...
...disturbances of electromagnetic radiation, as observed by Italy's Piatti. No successful forecast has resulted from any of these observations. The other approach is to take cognizance of possible contributing causes of quakes, such as the tidal pulls on Earth of heavenly bodies. Herbert Janvrin Browne, a heterodox Washington long-range weather forecaster, thinks the high frequency of quakes this year may be related to the fact that 1935 will have seven lunar and solar eclipses, the maximum possible number...
...DARK ISLAND-V. Sackville-West -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Civilized man has seldom made God in the image of a woman; she ranks high but not highest in his holy hierarchy. In practice, however, the private shrines of even heterodox moderns are as apt to contain less as a god. In The Dark Island Author Sackville-West has enshrined such a figure. To masculine readers her goddess will seem a human but incomprehensible creature; women will recognize in her a gynecomorphic ideal...
...from "hard money" toward depreciation of the dollar. That fitted better with Mr. Morgenthau's ideas. The elder Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, could probably afford to face inflation without undue anxiety, but Son Henry has long been known as more or less economically heterodox by training. Last week when the President made Henry Morgenthau Jr. not only Undersecretary but at the same time acting Secretary of the Treasury, his act was but a visible sign of a change in invisible policy that had been steadily taking place, a change to a policy abhorrent...