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The Magic of the Hill

... in the market, what a delightful supply Mr. Schwann could give it One has only to remember Colonel Rothwell's toilette his temper too short and uncertain to cope successfully with the trials that beset the tasks either of putting on or taking off clothes ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

A LETTER from SOUTH AFRICA

... garden party at Admiralty House on February 28. The weather was ideal a breeze gently rippling the bay, and light clouds tempering the radiance of the sun, are rare indeed for dusty, wind-swept Simonstown. It was deliciously cool on the lawn after the ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE: SOME RECENT BOOKS

... grandfather. Her home life in the large but shabby mansion, built when the town was in its infancy, was marred by the peevish ill-temper of her father, a disappointed and sour man. A youthful love affair, which ended unhappily, caused Martie to make a runaway ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 714 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Truth About Sarah

... sarah's The divine one had a T shocking temper. Even at emper. fifteen, after she had been expelled from a convent and longed to renounce the world and become a nun, she had a temper. She flew into a terrible temper, for instance, when the Due de Morny, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2679 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log

... about Mr. Charles Marriott's new book, so aptly called An Order to View (Hut chinson: 7s. 6d. net). which puts you in a good temper at once. lhe story is simple up to a point. James Wedmore, an architect, has won a competition for a new Technical Institute ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 652 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre: Top Secret (Winter Garden)

... handicaps. These handicaps are (1) the theatre is too big for it, (2) it was too long on the first night and a remarkably short-tempered gallery gave tongue and (3) its passably amusing central situation is not developed with sufficient inventive vigour. Presumably ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 698 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

GOOD READING IN THE BUCHAN ANTHOLOGY

... make a home on the Dindings River, and there they created a garden which was a complete joy in itself. Flowers which in our temperate climate take months to grow and to come to their full beauty, blossomed in a matter of weeks out there, and although she ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1839 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Books

... largely for the emotional actions of their heroines and a thoroughly entertaining case they make out. Nancy Johnstone chooses Temperate Zone (Faber and Faber, 7s. 6d.) for her sphere, and Pipitza, half Scottish, half Mexican Indian, for her very fascinating ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1819 | Page: 74 | Tags: Review 

REALITY AND REMINISCENCES

... economy of phrase and sub stance. Witness this good-tempered, good-humoured and mellowed scholar explaining to his reader the times and circumstances in which he allows himself to be cross. Not bad-tempered nor irritable just cross. Or the perfect portrait ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1774 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE

... former indulges long ere con fession of their mutual attachment is absolutely forced upon them. Beatrice should -have more temper and Benedick more malice; he too easily runs away; she too willingly runs after him. With these three characters as they were ...

LONDON HIPPODROME

... wild chase in canoes over a precipitous cascade and through a river which is not without an element of sensation, though tempered by our experiences of the Earl's Court chute. In the drama a certain Thundercloud, from whom an English settler and his Irish ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: KING HENRY THE FIFTH

... make-up of Bardolph is a study of the effects of drink and debauchery which might be loaned out to Sir Wilfrid Eawson lor temperance reform purposes but is it neces sary for the purposes of the play to have a face so repel lent as this, and that the three ...