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STANDING BY

... bookie, lovely one, can it be true Fishy Iv the Min. of Food boys possessed, collectively, the imagination of a glandered jellyfish they wouldn't go round feebly whimpering because the British housewife turns up her nose at such sea-products as lugs, milt ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... COCKTAILS TO PORT By the Shaker. THE very young son of a motorist was spending a holiday at the seaside. One day he espied a jellyfish, the like of which he had never seen before. He pointed out the strange thing to his mother. Oh, look, he said, there's ...

The Only Girl at the Apollo Theatre: THE CELIBATE WITH A SOFT HEART

... therefore II!; I J he does not go into the sea. That 1 means that matrimony is the sea, V and that women are dear, dear y II jellyfish. (Boy, go out and get that J. ;H man's scalp at once.) Three of Kimbrough's cronies thereupon con- fess that they have decided ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1480 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... other pre-war rhoncbnns nf the intelli gentsia the scolding peevish little ego boys, rootless and drifting and flabby as jellyfish. The verse of Flight-Lieut. Pudney is tonic, like bark-and-steel, and realist, like the Admiralty Channel Pilot series, and ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1603 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Devil's Call-Boy

... regard the Kaiser as a devil. So he may be. But think what a useful devil he is. Before his menace some millions of human jelly-fish have realised that, after all, they are men. This Kaiser has stiffened the world. He has made a fine sweep of picture-palaces ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1884 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

THROUGH A LONDONER'S WINDOW: The Yellow Gloves M. Caillaux--Slaylockracy--The Land with a Load of Mischief--The ..

... decorative stoppers. What will it suggest during the autumn? Pillar-boxes? Bod kins? Vegetable marrows Champagne bottles? Jelly-fishes Grenadiers Cricket-bats Minarets Tube lifts Flower-baskets Pyramids In verted pyramids? Tobacco jars? Maypoles? Grecian ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2207 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

IF SUMMER DON'T

... as follows You could always see every point of view except one, and that was your wife's. Once or twice the sting of your jelly-fish of a conscience made you try to be nice to me. There are words and 'acts from a man to a woman which may be lovely to the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2210 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES

... surprised if we had seaweed allotments at our coastal beauty spots. The next thing, I suggest, is to do some thing about jelly-fish. It has always seemed to me that they have been neglected by science, and I see all sorts of possibilities for plastics ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2424 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement

... self- reliance, pluck and chivalry and other manly virtues will no longer be in demand. W e shall be a nation of tabloid-fed jelly-fish. The artificial is ousting the natural in most directions, and in few is this really good for us. Back to Nature, then, ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1923
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2268 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

EARTHQUAKE

... silver. The water in the shadow of the ship was an intense bottle-green and as clear as glass. Two or three immense yellow jelly-fish, like big bath -sponges, drifted slowly by. On deck, the awnings threw sharp shadows, and the taffrail, in the sun, was ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2103 | Page: 50 | Tags: Illustrations 

A STUDY IN MAROON

... excellent swimmer. But with the thought came a sudden misgiving there were sharks occasionally on this coast she had heard, and jelly-fish. Besides, the best swimmers in the world were liable to cramp. Supposing supposing he was drowned The horror of this surmise ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1908
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2362 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations