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PLACE AUX DAMES

... a gay and dazzling spectacle. To the staid English the humours of the Carnival, the dancing in the streets, the shouts of laughter, and the incessant throwing of confetti appear foolish, but to the warm hearted Southerner it is full of genuine enjoyment ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1317 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

FROM THE STRANGERS' GALLERY: A Few More Candid Comments on the Commons; A Good-Humoured House

... though, for all the world, he were being tickled with a feather. Genial Opponents Mr. Balfour was, I believe, convulsed with laughter when Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman said, in historic phrase, Enough of this foolery In fact, I strongly suspect that the two ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1907
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1489 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Golden Age

... the end of a very small Prejudice, spoon, men are so absurdly vain. A disinterested onlooker, I said, would scream with laughter at our vanity. The best of it is, though, that there are none. None what (A charming phrase as Miss Phyllis speaks it.) ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1011 | Page: 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

A FEW DAYS AGO

... few days. AA7ith the quarrel between Mr. Tudor Walters and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence over the smok ing-room story of the Suffragette I have no concern, but it contains significant details. Mrs. Lawrence's indignation, amounting to fury, is significant her ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1367 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

Random Jottings

... positively pathetic. Diversions The Suffragettes, says a contemporary seemed to enjoy their march to Holloway in prison clothes as much as anyone, although the police made them change their route.) Small wonder laughter long and loud Should greet their ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 473 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY: AT THE ALDWYCH THEATRE

... I ask again, is this what the Suff (Cries of Votes for Women 1 followed by the gentle but decisive ejection of fifteen Suffragettes disguised as Boy Scouts.) WE meet the Bad Girl first of all at her mother's house. Her father is, unfortunately, out of ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1759 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 19 January 1910
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 537 | Page: 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... summer. And it is no excuse for him that he has found the ticket. The low comedian always does keep CQ the gallery in fits of laughter while he hunts for the missing pasteboard in the depths of his P'J; 1 capacious trouser-pockets. /VJh I The smart young married ...

Published: Wednesday 26 January 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 862 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

PARIS et Autres SHOWS Choses: At the Cirque Molier

... everybody has seen in the Bois. But this evening she wears them strapped down to her boots, and wears them like a charming Suffragette, riding astride a beautiful bay horse, and making him do everything but talk. Then there is Monsieur le Vicomte de X., who ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 983 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Suffragette Scrimmage: The Enthusiastic Supporters

... Tlhie Suffragette Scrlmmag'e. The Enthusiastic Supporters. BRAVO! Bravo! yelled the crowd of women who, though they entirely sympathised with the females who were being ruth lessly dragged off to prison, infinitely preferred to be certain of their own ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1910
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... the hobble skirt and yet It certainly would put a stop, if not to the verbosity, At least to the ju-jitsu of the Fighting Suffragette. Anyhow, if the crinoline does come in again it will do away with the daily spokeshave which was rendered necessary by the ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 950 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations