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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: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2268 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Visit

... diabetic generals take before dinner. He told me that one day he would be able to create a leg or an arm from a section of jellyfish, and I believe he would have made experiments on me it I had given him a chance. He tried to persuade me to drink something ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2931 | Page: 48 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Times we live in

... takes very little to do that.) He also said the Labour people have no backbone but only whalebone in fact, they are pure jellyfish. He fully approves of the Flapper Vote because he thinks we shall use it just as wisely or just as foolishly as young men ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1929
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2756 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

PARTRIDGE SHOOTING COMMENCES

... covered at night, or Jerry will drop a pill on them. Pamela was jumpy she had to move. This man was about as responsive as a jelly-fish. They wandered round the garden half an acre that had been a foreman's joy before the biscuit-factory had been requisitioned ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3267 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Times we live in

... dis covered in a cave, when they assure us upon the authority of the jaw bone of a defunct ape that we are descended from jellyfish, we shall merely have to mutter Glozel to see them redden and look ashamed. The leading anthropologists of the world have ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1928
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3177 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Three Suitors for Helène

... had the first chance. He met M. Albrand in the street one morning. Heldne had come home the night before with a bad leg. Jellyfish sting, or something. Perhaps the doc would be good enough to look in. Mille remer dements The doc's hands were steady as ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1953
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3238 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Times we live in

... dis covered in a cave, when they assure us upon the authority of the jaw bone of a defunct ape that we are descended from jellyfish, we shall merely have to mutter Glozel to see them redden and look ashamed. The leading anthropologists of the world have ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1928
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3177 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

BEANS: No.2 .--GOLFING HAZARDS

... football yesterday afternoon, and making rings round the opposition while the star forward of our team floated about like a jelly-fish in a calm sea' It's a good yarn, Wickham, old son, but it doesn't get past me Look here, will you take one if I do challenged ...

UNDER FALSE COLOURS: A YACHTING STORY

... Lady Bosbury rose hurriedly, her face flushing. Ken, you're an idiot 1 You always were. No more back bone or fibre than a jelly-fish. But I have, and my mind s made up. You'll pro| oso to the Ameiicail girl before she leaves Cowes, do you luar? They sail ...

A Son of France

... a word, he lifted his Luger B and shot. The cane knife was torn out of Frangois's grasp, and his hand stung as though a jelly-fish had nettled him. But he folded his arms and stood still, with the blank face and iron discipline he had learned on the Island ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3839 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOMENT of DISQUIET: There were so many things she wanted to ask but suddenly she felt shy of him, lying there

... were quick warm patches that she was through before she had time to realize them her hand touched the slimy softness of a jellyfish. Reaching the jetty, she climbed carefully on to the slippery seaweed of it, and stood for a moment. The soldier was still ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3150 | Page: 77 | Tags: Illustrations