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Such is LIFE

... colour which they called elephant grey. No wonder women went in for slimming. Colonel's letter in The Times. npHis Week's Nature Note A newt in love is a comic sight. From The Rambler's Calendar. The occurrence of a whole series of smash-and- grab raids ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1932
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1412 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... to make an English summer and it can't be the mildness of our April and May that has brought the nightingales. One other nature note by an amateur. The first cockchafer sloshed in my bedroom coincided exactly with the first salmon- reeling note of the ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Such is LIFE

... colour which they called elephant grey. No wonder women went in for slimming. Colonel's letter in The Times. npHis Week's Nature Note A newt in love is a comic sight. From The Rambler's Calendar. The occurrence of a whole series of smash-and- grab raids ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1932
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1412 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... moment every third citizen you meet may be a member of it), and it would be only decent to stage these thefts accordingly. Nature Note CA enerals always die in bed (Old Saw) J and numbers of them belonging to the pre- or Great War vintage, seem to have been ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1820 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

The SURGEONS of the ROYAL NAVY: A Record of their Fine Service Under Rough-and-Ready Wartime Conditions

... of a British man-of-war AN OPERATION IN PROGRESS ON A NAVAL VESSEL, where much of the equipment is of a rough-and-ready nature. Note the anaesthetist administering his drug straight out of the bottle, by hand A BATTLESHIP'S SICK BAY IN WARTIME, when most ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2400 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

And the World Said

... after so much compulsory enthusiasm at military parades. The Potsdam lilacs were worth flying over for, which leads us to a nature note. K.L.M. pilots at Speke Airport have been taking particular trouble to avoid a patch of grass four inches square in the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2734 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

NATURE NOTES and OTHER ITEMS of the WEEK

... NATURE NOTES and OTHER ITEMS of the WEEK. Wild Life Pictured by the Camera Mr. Cherry Kearton, the well-known chronicler of animal life with the camera, has produced an interesting volume of nature notes with lens and pen. It is published by Hodder and ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 719 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

NATURE NOTES: Or Why Small Boys Leave Home

... NATURE NOTES Or Why Small Boys Leave Home SYLVIA SIDNEY over in England to star in the new Gaumont-British picture Sabotage, has that luscious look which is responsible for so many of us being detained in the office, m'dear. We are booking our seats ...

NATURE NOTES OF THE WEEK: Concerning Bees, Fowls, and Gardens

... NATURE NOTES OF THE WEEK The time of plenty has come for the bees when the cherry and apple blossoms open and flowers begin to be less scarce. For those who have space to spare it would be interesting to plan a garden specially for the welfare of these ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1913
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 905 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs