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Motley Notes: SPRING

... busting, All womankind has started dusting The asphodel pipes in the leafy bower, The throstle burgeons into splendid flower Cauliflowers are scarce, savoys are even worse. And the rhubarb looks like sulking unless we get a shower But the eglantine and dewy ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1054 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: Will It Have Lasted?

... did. He does not. He thinks them nonsense. He considers them a waste of time that might more usefully be employed upon cauliflowers. Each Man to his Job Yet we live in peace. We are on the best of terms because I am content to sit in the shade and sing: ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1928
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1047 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

Motley Notes: PERSONALITY

... instantly repels one is sympathetic, another unsympathetic. We do not know why, any more than we know why we happen to like cauliflower and to loathe parsnips. It is quite useless to try to analyse it you may assign approval here and disapproval there, but ...

Published: Wednesday 15 October 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1046 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

Velvet lawns, dust pans and Blossom..

... keeps the moisture in the ground. We started watering in April last year because it was such a dry month. The result on our cauliflowers, broad beans and spring cabbage was wonderful. We water the garden here by calculation. It sounds compli cated but it is ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1063 | Page: 84 | Tags: Illustrations 

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... the other, I've heard soup gargled, and siphoned, but on my soul that's the first time I ever heard it yodelled. nPHIS cauliflower is beastly, remarked the JL ever-grousing golfer who was lunching between rounds. Ah, replied his partner, you'd better ...

Grey Hair Looms

... and lettuce for silicon; if you cannot get sea products for iodine, take cod liver oil; eat cabbage, radishes, onions, cauliflower, carrots, apples and turnips for sulphur. In addition to internal nourishment, apply external nourisnment in ine lorm ui ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1090 | Page: 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: TIDINESS

... know by this time that you will come out of the ring with a clear victory on points, but with two beefsteak eyes and a cauliflower nose, and, not im possibly, a broken heart. Take, again, the matter of a newspaper. I must confess here to a personal weakness ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1119 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

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The BYSTANDER OVERSEAS: Re-Ruralising America

... desert England is feeding herself; that on Berlin's balconies, once sacred to wet lingerie, now bloom carrots and that cauliflowers have replaced gillyflowers on the big raised patch before King Haakon's palace in Christiania. To Europeans war-gardens ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 912 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: New Year Hate

... only the cabbage, but many different scions of the cabbage family, including savoys, drum-heads, kales, broccoli, sprouts, cauliflowers, and a mysterious variety which I confess is a new one on me, known as cabbage thinnings.'' The description applies aptly ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2469 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Place aux Dames

... her, ices she cannot make, she recKs notmng ot cold mousse of ham or chicken, of cold curries or of salads of cucumber, cauliflower, curried vegetables, Russian salads, &c. In the middle-class households people contentedly go on eating a large joint in ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1904
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1180 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations