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THE DESCENDANTS

... eese, and beer. Now and then Marlowe, whose salary was a little less modest than his companions', would provide a lobster-salad, for which he was awarded a vote of thanks in the meantime and a promise of a banquet when good luck smiled upon the band. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 June 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3076 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE WOMAN WHO PAID

... too hot to be hungry, she told him. Let 's go down to the Lake. They sat at a little table on a green velvet lawn and ate salad and a few flakes of chicken and an ice. He paid. He bought her a funny little nosegay thing with three little pink-petalled ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1512 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

SOME SOCIAL CHANGES WHICH I HAVE SEEN

... Sunday's dinner, drawn by a cook who lived before the School Board, is still affectionately remembered 1. Soup. 2. Cold Beef. 3. Salad. 4. Cold Sweats. In brief, respectable people used to eat and drink sparingly on. Sunday, caused no unnecessary work, went ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1594 | Page: 12 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

THE GAY PHILANTHROPIST: A COMPLETE STORY

... speak at all, but he received here the sympathy of all right-minded people, who recognised that in him was one who had in his salad days mixed with the worst and was now endeavouring to remedy this by earnest and thoughtful be nevolence. He bore no ill-will ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2081 | Page: 38 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A Red- Brown Study

... aren't you she cried. Not so tired, I said cautiously, as famished, Oh, poor you Well, come in there's cold chicken and salad, and cheese, and I can hot up some milk. She threw open the gate. Would you like a wash Shouldn't I She led me to a scullery ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2250 | Page: 20 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

One Morning After

... and water added, and the whole set on the flame, they returned to the studio, to wait. There were fewer piled-up plates with salad between, in the studio. Where's my easel gone? Avery wanted to know. In that little alcove that leads to the fire door. It's ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1928
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2145 | Page: 14 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A GREAT SUCCESS

... beautifully. Lady Eleanor was sweet, and the flowers looked lovely, she told them and as she helped herself to another helping of salad, her eyes were curiously engrossed in the curling leaves of the lettuce. And the dress It was her sister asking. Was it a success ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2264 | Page: 48 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

OUR SHORT STORY: NOTHING IN COMMON!

... OUR SHORT STORY. J^S NOTHING IN COMMON I By THEODORA BENSON. (Author of Salad Days.) SURELY a man, before taking the extreme step of leaving his young wife for ever, would have fortified himself with a decent meal. Kay, having cleared the coast by sending ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2413 | Page: 25 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

The NET of TRUTH

... and yearning, gazing hopefully up at a shiered German captain, who had previously picked ery strawberry out of the fruit salad. The German arricr fl inked a thin, determined man-woman, who ore pince-nez and demonstrated, by knife and fork aves, to a ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2798 | Page: 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Fiction/Narrative

... t either out of pity for his deformity or from natural sympathy. Tell me, he said, one evening when they were eating the salad left over from their masters' supper, what is your opinion of this young gentleman who admires our mistress What opinion can ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3037 | Page: 20 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

One Morning After

... and water added, and the whole set on the flame, they returned to the studio, to wait. There were fewer piled-up plates with salad between, in the studio. Where's my easel gone? Avery wanted to know. In that little alcove that leads to the fire door. It's ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1928
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2145 | Page: 14 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

HATS OFF: A SHORT STORY

... the studio with ift her sleeves turned up, laughing and talking while she Ift peeled potatoes, grilled a chop, or mixed a salad. V She had a good voice and an extraordinary memory K| for music-hall songs, with which she regaled us while y smoking innumerable ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2758 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative