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MOTLEY NOTES: WATER

... purposes to have countless millions of herrings, there is no real advantage to any body in having countless millions of jelly-fish or gastropods or squids. Yet, for the sake of these tiresome creatures and their conservative attitude towards wise parenthood ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Dobson of Market Harborough

... reward. Now and then a shout would come from the surrounding trees. Hey, Molly Want me to come down an' help yer cut up the jellyfish Hoo-hoo Molly de skoit More abusive now. Making improper sug gestions. The loneliness was affecting the brain of William ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1933
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6861 | Page: 98 | Tags: Illustrations 

EARTHQUAKE

... silver. The water in the shadow of the ship was an intense bottle-green and as clear as glass. Two or three immense yellow jelly-fish, like big bath -sponges, drifted slowly by. On deck, the awnings threw sharp shadows, and the taffrail, in the sun, was ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2103 | Page: 50 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... Cuisine and Service. Fully Licensed. Wedding Receptions The bathing is safe and good. There are no sharks, sea-serpents or jelly-fish, and you can bathe from our own special beach adjoining our Annexe (three minutes by car from the Hotel), where teas and ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 648 | Page: 45 | 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 

CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON: Authors of Foreigners; or the World in a Nutshell.; No. 2. THE ST. REGIS

... lordly air. Laura could hardly believe that the sandy-haired little boy of twelve, down whose back she had once slipped a jelly-fish, had blos somed out not only into an Air Force uniform but into such sophistication. But she began to feel confident herself ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: POLLY AND JIMMY

... to moment. One can't imagine even a jelly fish managing without hope. I don't know what particular joys or excite ments jelly-fish look for ward. to, but I am sure they look forward to some thing, and when they cease to do so, they might just as well ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1101 | Page: 4 | 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 

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 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... other pre-war rhoncbnns nf the intelli gentsia the scolding peevish little ego boys, rootless and drifting and flabby as jellyfish. The verse of Flight-Lieut. Pudney is tonic, like bark-and-steel, and realist, like the Admiralty Channel Pilot series, and ...

Published: Wednesday 18 August 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1603 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES

... surprised if we had seaweed allotments at our coastal beauty spots. The next thing, I suggest, is to do some thing about jelly-fish. It has always seemed to me that they have been neglected by science, and I see all sorts of possibilities for plastics ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2424 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: From the Front of the Front

... which I meet wherever I turn. Life has never been secure, never is and never will be, and we should all be jelly-fish if it were (not that the jelly-fish's life, I imagine, is more secure than any other creature's). This does not mean, of course, that the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2402 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations