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A PAGE FROM A GUINNESS SCRAP-BOOK

... A PAGE FROM A GUINNESS 5CRAP-BOOK A PAGE FROM A GUINNESS SCRAP-BOOK GRAMMARIANS' GUINNESS HE Possessive Case is distinguished I \A' by an apostrophe, with the letter s subjoined to it: as, My soul's idol A pudding's end When the singular terminates in ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 312 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

FROM COCKTAILS TO PORT

... FROM COCKTAILS TO PORTl By the Shaker. DAD, why do they call it 'Glorious' Good- wood? murmured the inquisitive daughter during an interval between races. By thunder, growled her exasperated parent, who had just dropped a pony on a stone-dead cert ...

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: Revised Version

... good deal to their hair. Eugenists, please note The Scrap-Book L\dy Shackleton is j anxious to find her late husband's scrap-book winch is unaccountably missing. There was a time when the scrap-book was a valued asset of every library, but it has fallen ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1498 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

GRAMMARIANS' GUINNESS

... us If he can say as you can Guinness is good for you, How grand to be a T oucan Just think what Toucan do A PAGE FROM A GUINNESS SCRAP-BOOK ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 301 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: KNOWLEDGE

... of useless knowledge There are many people who have what may be called the scrap-book mind. They go on pasting things in all their lives and when all is done their scrap-book is fit for nothing but the scrap-heap. There are quite a number of people in ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 78

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 78 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. WAR SCRAP-BOOK. --If only there were time! With that commodity, what a war scrap-book I should have made-- a book to make the gods weep (and men with a sense of humour crack their ribs with laughing) ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1873 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

TWO BOOKS OF DISTINCTION

... ity. I cannot leave the book without voic ing my one regret, The exeats from Hell permitted to Judas Iscariot by the Lord he be trayed from Satur- flnv tr ^nndau night, and from Easter to Whitsun-- should not be headed Where Judas goes for the week-end ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 963 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

Why the Riviera Will Remain

... which separates Calais from Nice. That is obviously written from the heart, and it is to the heart that the C6te d Azur makes its irresistible f appeal. The Riviera is a romantic spot, and Romance springs from the heart rather than from the k pocket or the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1926
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Small Prophets, Quick Returns

... socialism. He declared that the world would break its neck between 1930 and 1940 and the last prediction, made in 1903, which I shall quote is, I fear, rather depressing My figures coincide in fixing 1950 as the year when the world must go smash. Whether the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2298 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

MADAME MELBA AT HOME

... of the world. Our first picture is from a photograph by H. W. Barnett, Hyde Park-corner, and the other by Talma and Co., Sydney. THREE GENERATIONS, Madame Melba, Mr. David Mitchell, her father, and Miss Nellie Patterson, her sister's child. From a picture ...

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A GLANCE AROUND

... country unsought it goes to the country unwept. It may come back again or it may not. But whatever its J ate, may we be saved from another such visitation as that of the year now ending For particulars see the aforementioned borders\ IT has been the practice ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2046 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations