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CITY NOTES: FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE

... The company makes agricultural implements, as well as lawn-mowers, and 1 should imagine it must be doing well in this Dig-for- Victory campaign. The figures are good, said The Broker. The shares will pay you yi per cent, on the money, and there aren't ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--: CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE COCK, of H.M. Destroyer HARDY, of the first attack on ..

... TO- CHIEF PETTY OFFICER GEORGE COCK, of H.M. Destroyer HARDY, of the first attack on Narvik, for being unsinkable. Digging for victory when at home, so that the spuds will be ready for his next leave Believe it or not, the special jumper sent for Tubby ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Please forward overseas

... rubbish carefully in a newspaper and put it in my bed, and then took my hot- water bottle to the boiler fire. I have been digging for Victory and Lumbago again. Lady B. says I am the only person she has ever seen actually gardening with a hot-water bottle strapped ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 980 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON

... and that 's Betty Warren, however bogus they are, Mr. Braithwaite insisted. Act I. finished on a good tune, Dig, Dig, Dig, Dig Dig for Victory with the chorus, with spades and green baize aprons, bouncing ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 998 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Are You a Scoundrel?

... _ Subscribing to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund nt 1 No, I have other causes to support. Another big round nought. Digging for victory No space for vegetables. Nil. Knitting for one of the Ser vices Can't knit. Zero. Slaying in your shelter during an ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2195 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Going Places

... tunity of buying stocks of* Spanish and Egyptian onions when they were cheap. Well, here is another chance for you to dig for victory and to make two onions grow where one grew before. The thought depresses me but it 's a free country Turning Night into ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2273 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Paths of Glory

... observe if' if always catches you out. It seemed obvious common sense to maintain the supply of fresh vegetables by digging for victory. But it turns out that the spade-work has been almost too enthusiastic, or, at all events, has not been wisely enough ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2383 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

CITY NOTES: FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE

... artichokes they don't wilt. Wilt thou was the indignant retort. I '11 wager you weren't digging for victory before breakfast this morning. I finished my digging on Easter Monday. My wife and I had lunch in the West End, and we were going to see a picture ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1052 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... Admiralty to teach the tars. MISS ETHEL GERARD for taking the Board of Agriculture literally with a very model way of digging for victory. TH LANCING WOMEN'S VOLUNTARY SERVICE-- for being Mother Hubbards with well-stocked cupboards. CADET TONY SUTTON, of ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

FORCES PROGRAMME SINGER NO 1

... I VERA LYNN'S fan mail is a problem. She gets over a hundred letters a week from admirers at home and abroad. Left Digging for victory Vera finds time to plant cabbage seed in her garden at Barking. 44 All my own work Vera Lynn with some of the records ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: Blowing Hot and Cold

... Of Seven Dials. In my opinion, these housewives, whose deserts I do not question, have discovered the true secret of digging for victory. If the Ministry of Agriculture cares to take over my inconsiderable allotment for model or demonstration purposes, ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2296 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

Other

... garment (6). 24. Commotion behind (6). 25. Right to leave (6). SOLUTION OF CROSS WORD PUZZLE, JANUARY 14. Across. I. Dig for Victory. 8. Idiot. 9. Caribou. 10. Estop. 11. Try it on. 13. Alee. 15. Canine. 16. Alkali. 19. Emma. 21. Taffeta, 24. Meant. 26 ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 279 | Page: 30 | Tags: Other