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CELEBRITIES in CAMEO: No. 31. Sir Harry Preston

... her year- old honour. Originally' intended to be a schoolmaster, Harry became an amateur boxer of no mean prowess and a cauliflower ear. Forty years ago the leading insurance companies refused a policy on his life. In the past three years he has cheated ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 445 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... stung by the foregoing quotation, obstinately looked for a flower, I could only alight, weakly, upon a cauliflower. For nothing less hardy than a cauliflower, ears akimbo, could sur vive to write witn sucn ae-Dunking affection of so hardy, so stern-and-Caledonian ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1688 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

A Fine Short-Story Writer:

... smell the garlic sausages, and ogle the fancy girls, and try not to get robbed, and eat baked breast of lamb with peas and cauliflower and potatoes. Then Miss Ferber abandons the Bagdad- upon-the-Subway style, and gives us a story of a spoilt American girl ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: Arrowsmith

... topless necks and Burne-Jones's nymphs of the bridgeless noses. To-day, however, I willingly hang some reproduction of a cauliflower by Van Gogh, of worm-eaten apples by Cezanne. ,.f tn, -o h,- \r :ifis5p who. qi Hi rift in front of her dressinsr- table ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1359 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Prejudices

... room to sow all sorts of seeds, Rosamond, do you think, in your little gar den For instance, turnip, carrot, cabbage, and cauliflower seeds, and peas and beans, and Poor Rosamond She found great diffi culty in achieving the verbal exactitude which seems ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2268 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... us, she now outdid her husband in miserliness much of her food came literally from the gutter, in the shape of bruised cauliflowers and other off-scourings of the market. Miss Trevelyan presents the workings of Jane's mind with extra ordinary skill. We ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2237 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review