Word: kineticism
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Indians are sedentary and submissive, Britons kinetic and therefore dominant. Significant, last week, was an illustration of this contrast afforded when His Majesty's Viceroy of India, Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin, set out from Delhi to take what he described as "a short rest and vacation."
Banker Giannini is indeed a dominator of dollars; but his quick, kinetic brain must have rejected instantly the nonsense with which L'Impero welcomed him to Rome, last week, as follows:
*To uninitiated persons the fashionable "kinetic theory" of M. Lelong seems to mean chiefly that he designs his dresses with full skirts to permit free leg movement. The French Government sent him to the U. S. in 1925 to report on the working conditions of women throughout the U. S...
Married. Lucien Lelong, selfstyled inventor of the "kinetic theory* of feminine dress," and smart, leading Parisian couturier; to Princess Natalie Paley, daughter (by a morganatic marriage) of the late Grand Duke Paul, an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris.
The obvious conclusion arrives. Poorer, wiser and more awake to the dignity of washing dishes, Mary returns to Cinder Town. Once more the kinetic nobility of Furze charges her heart with true love. He takes her to be his housekeeper. If she succeeds at her tasks, he will marry her...