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Somewhere in Flanders

... subjection to the rigours of the third degree as administered by Monsieur Blanc, she burst into a flood of collapsed against the kitchen range. Vj^e looked at our watches. Yes, in a swift car we might just be in time to cut the train off at M fifty miles away ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 886 | Page: 20 | Tags: Letter 

IN ENGLAND-NOW!

... keen interest in these minor matters every one's so tremendously on edge about what's going to happen down Last now that Kitchener's got there. JJv the way, war time's a funny time, isn't it, for chroniqucs scandaleuses Such a lot of the other kind you'd ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1858 | Page: 16 | Tags: Letter 

ON GERMAN HUMOUR

... the Daily Mail as a pretty incident, sent an orderly to her with a present of a basket of vegetables culled from her own kitchen garden And it seems the dear thoughtful old gentleman was dreadfully upset and annoyed when his orderly returned in a hurry ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 929 | Page: 28 | Tags: Letter 

A WEEKLY LETTER

... lingerie, flowers, furniture, antiques, hats, Paris frocks, motor cars, pianos, billiard-tables, jewellery, etc., etc. And Lord Kitchener's busy sister in command of the Women's Signalling Corps just to remind us, faintly, that there is a war and that times are ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2207 | Page: 9 | Tags: Letter 

IN ENGLAND-NOW!

... shock with which they come on us, and the way in which thousands of men are gone all at once. But even more, I think, Lord Kitchener's death and the manner of it appealed to the imagination of the British public which is rather hard to rouse. A man that's ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1565 | Page: 8 | Tags: Letter 

IN ENGLAND-NOW!

... a shilling with every spoonful takes I the last remnant of one's appetite clean away. r v hen it is that I flee from the kitchen and from 1 the cook, who expects me to produce eggs as by magic and fresh ideas for tasty dishes that cost 2 \d. with unfailing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2463 | Page: 12 | Tags: Letter 

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... earmarked by one of our countless Boss Controllers for the bloodthirsty purpose of Boche killing. So it has got to be the plain kitchen or chandelier variety in all its bulk, and that means a great big gas-bag like a young balloon or an inflated Hun sausage ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1319 | Page: 42 | Tags: Letter 

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... still unevacuated the Regent Palace, the Second Loots' Valhalla, nice and central the Ritz, still unimpaired as a communal kitchen the Carl ton, so convenient for Cabinet Mini sters and the big wigs of Whitehall and the Nuts' Paradise in Pic cadilly. So ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1918
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1308 | Page: 34 | Tags: Letter 

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... purveys when he has any of it to purvey 1 Last Sunday, I don't mind telling you that some domestic detail drew me into the kitchen, where I saw what I thought was a dainty cutlet for an invalid but at lunch-time I was abruptly disillusionised when I discovered ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1918
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1325 | Page: 32 | Tags: Letter 

Somewhere in Flanders: THE GULF

... that I was urgently wanted at the office. Vt \>K I was back within ten minutes, an awful fear clutching at my heart. The kitchen door was ajar, and tiptoeing softly to it I put my eye to the crack, in time to watch the old lady pick up a fork and slowly ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 678 | Page: 10 | Tags: Letter 

A WEEKLY LETTER FROM

... £K S And in all the best houses, of L course, the air reverberates with joyful and pleasing chop-chop- choppings from the kitchen. Currants and spice and such things nice are to be released, you see, for the occasion. Also, for Christ mas week, a quarter ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1329 | Page: 9 | Tags: Letter 

DEARTH OF LODGINGS

... and more had to ho 1. found, with the result stated. Only rewntly a double-turn man and wifo had to sharo a brick-floored kitchen with crying dirty children, and their bed was the only thing in the bedroom worth mentioning. Artists aro considered outsiders ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1919
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 15 | Tags: letter