... so violent that the cross-Channel steamer service was suspended. he saw in an English newspaper this heading: The Continent Isolated. Gold from the Air air, unlike the sea, has no special words for its treasuretrove. So the gold ingots which fell from ...

... owing to a vio- lent storm, the Channel crossings were suspended, and I remember one newspaper contents bill read: j Continent isolated We were all right, you see. It was only the Continent of Europe j that was in a fix! '* , , iff .. . two seamen entered ...

... what he thinks about the war. His sublime I don't; I didn't start it,' 1 on a par with the apocryphal London headline Continent isolated by fog. SporJng Items Raymond Guest is now in the United States Navy, having been on the Reserve. Brother Winston, ...

... British insularity ofthought: a certain newspaper's headlines once proclaimed : Fog in Straits of Dover More - The Continent Isolated. More seriously, yet as a sciolist rushing in where the academic taxonomist might fear to tread, might I sugge t that ...

... (Those were the days when a newspaper could, without seeing any joke, put out the contents bill, FOG IN CHANNEL: CONTINENT ISOLATED.) The aeroplane has hastened the process. A Channel crossing is no longer two hours of sea- Says IVOR THOMAS LABOUR ...

... fellow put up the heading Elisha Eacon nor like the day when there was a big storm in the Channel and the heading read Continent Isolated but you never can tell. There are snags, of course. I read the leader and got myself involved at lunch in a dull wrangle ...