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Portraits in Print: Simon Harcourt-Smith

... in the Plaza de la Republica. I wondered how in an English country town they would dance this the most complicated of all Caribbean rhythms to travel abroad. I looked into the ballroom. Ta-ra, ta-ra, ta-ra-TA went the band. To this exotic measure they were ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1653 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

We see by the Papers

... ankles, and a fair-sized wad in the bank. She is, moreover, a widow twice re moved. Her first hus band fell overboard in the Caribbean Sea and met a shark. It's !a painful subject even for me. What must it not have been for the poor chap himself 'We had been ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1383 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Voodoo Emperor

... State for Foreign Affairs, and His Highness Prince Limbo. ALL the ceremonial of the old Versailles, as understood on the Caribbean, was initiated at his ragtime levees. The woolly- headed nobles came powdered there were swords and lace in profusion the ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1928
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1849 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

At The Pictures: The Lunatic Fringe

... scruples: he will murder only on behalf of the Left. Nobody else in the picture has any. Setting out with the Lady on the Caribbean cruise, are her crippled husband, America's most successful criminal lawyer (Everett Sloane is horribly effective) and the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1537 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

PIRACY in t he INDIES

... some famous pirates. There are in addition reports sent home by the very naval officers who attacked the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Much light is thrown upon the state of affairs which permitted the pirates to five their sportive fives for so long ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1591 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

EDEN--WITHOUT THE ATOM

... friends otherwise there is small reason why folk of venturesome 'temperament shouldn't make a go of a new life in the Caribbean, or in Melanesia, for that matter. Provided a minimum of white life doesn't diminish within one's radius, satisfying a natural ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1910 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Weather: What Do We Know About It?

... carrier of bad Continued on page 52) (On left) A flash of lightning photographed from a ship during a terrific storm in the Caribbean Sea (Below) A weather phenomenon. Close-up view of a waterspout. This picture helps to dispel the belief that they consist ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2020 | Page: 54 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... treacly chunks with a knife. Deep ruby-black in colour, it turned out to be, containing the essence of all the sunshine of the Caribbean, the deepest mellow notes of a Cremona bass-viol, the lovely golden glow of Giorgi- one's varnish, and the passionate yet ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1798 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... mind which hates to see anything not drifting. My dear, I'd know that face anywhere he once chased me for six miles in the Caribbean Can't hear a word The more rows of this kind the better, anyway. Nobody can catch a scientist out better than a rival in ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1826 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Round the Restaurant: The Tatler and Bystander Guide to Lunching, Dining and Dancing in Wartime London; The May ..

... broadcasting, as they sometimes do from the restaurant, to their native West Indies, so you can be sure that the haunting Caribbean music you listen and dance to is the real thing. Maison Prunier /Calling all oyster-lovers. You haven't much ^time left. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1770 | Page: 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

First-Footing Into Fear

... Buccaneer's Castle By Alan Hyder IT'S the bottom of the sea, Alison thought. We've plunged right down the mountain into the Caribbean. For the light outside the car was a subdued aquamarine and shimmered like water, distorting, ribboning, confusing vision ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3851 | Page: 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

SEEKING the MOTHER of OIL

... has car ried him into far places Russia, South America, Cuba, the Florida Keys, the Mexican and Califor- nian coasts, the Caribbean waters off Venezuela, the Pacific waters off California, Washington, and British Columbia, inland lakes and forested marshes ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2193 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations