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The Literary Lounger: How America Won the War

... The Literary Lounger. By Keble Howard How America Won the War. It was in this way. If the French asked for a separate peace, England would be forced to do her fighting on her own island. (I suppose the Navy would have retired to Warwickshire A German ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2599 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

LITERARY LOUNGER: SHAMROCK IV. AND THE AMERICA CUP; War--and Peace

... SHAMROCK IV. AND THE AMERICA CUP.* War and Peace. Despite the excitement inevitably caused by a great war, there is yet room to chronicle the voyaging of the challenger Shamrock IV. to compete once more for the British lifting of the America Cup. Peace hath ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE STAGE; I.-- THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS, AT THE COURT; II.-- ANOTHER LANGUAGE, AT THE ..

... would have gained if, instead of being naturalised, it had been left to Jewry to which it belonged. III. 14 BUSINESS WITH AMERICA, AT THE HAYMARKET. MISS MADGE TITHERADGE, who had a rousing welcome on her return to the stage, brought with her a pleasant ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1291 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: West

... Where can she go Where she can find a people who are still in the fresh ness and vigour of youth America She has never been to America, and her ideas of America are mainly founded on the writings of American poets. Surely, if she is to find solace, balm, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2583 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

THE WIND IS FREE

... THE WIND IS FREE. By Frank Wlehtman. (Allen and Unwin 16s.) Straightforward account of a cruise from South Africa to South America by two men in a 34-ft. yawl. sk ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 30 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE CINEMA

... xa. CRITICISMS IN CAMEO. 6. MEN WITH WINGS, at the Carlton. America invented the flying-machine. America perfected it. America icon the war with it. America flew the Atlantic in it. America made this film about it; so that it may come as a ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1124 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH

... Cecil Chesterton brings the story down to a brief record of how America came into the war and at that point, in America and Britain, Mr. McLaughlin takes it up. He glances over America's past to explain her present, gees into her relations with England ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1919
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1147 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

SONS OF NOAH

... not an admirer of his Way of a Transgressor and remember a trivial and misleading book which Mr. Farson wrote about South America. My hopes rose when I thought that it was to be about an isolated community living by the salt marshes of the New Jersey coast ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

The Mountain Lion

... The Mountain Lion. By Tean Stafford. (Faber and Faber 8s. 6d.) Childhood in America of a brother and sister which ends in a sudden piece of shrieking melodrama. Over-written or isn't it over writing to speak of a road being devoured by the car like an ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

MY TRUE LOVE

... and even better futures than they had before. That 's what we fought and died for. That 's what I 'm fighting for. That 's America. Keep it that way until I come back. So Lee acquires a huge bath, 10 ft. by 5, and wrecks her bedroom to instal it. Which ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 662 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER MR. HALL CAINE has completed his play based on The Eternal City, and goes to America early in September to rehearse it. A striking experiment is shortly to be made with The Eternal City, which is to be published on both sides ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 949 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... hour or two in the company of Miss Gertrude Stein. Wherever she looks around her, whether in France, her adopted country, or America, her birthplace, or in England, she is entirely undismayed. She greets the seen, as well as the un seen, with a cheer. She ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1075 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review