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THE LIBRARY: The Bad Temper in Fiction

... Keighley Sr.owden. (Werner Laurie.) Tr.e Pad Temper in Fiction The hero of Mr. H. de Selincourt's new novel, The High Adventure John Lane: 6s.), enjoys my respectful envy. He is a man with the longest temper I have ever met. His life is one long curse ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 823 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

The World of Books How, asks Virginia Woolf, can Woman, in this Man-made World, ever Hope to Prevent a Man-made ..

... Woolf, can Woman, in this Man-made World, ever -lope to Prevent a Man-made War A Young Man Looks at Europe 3nd Gauges the Temper of the People Behind the Troubled Frontiers By Vernon Fane THAT well-meaning man, that secretary of the anti-war society, ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2704 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

THE INN IN THE VALLEY

... ambition was a hotel for the tourists, there was a wide divergence of ideals. The method of Katharine Pley dell-Bouverie is temperate and deliberate she advances step by step as she works out the fight for the valley. She has a strong sense of artistic values ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 76 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Lifeline Duchess

... make a wartime transatlantic trip. The pro perty of the chief engineer, it serves not only as a safety-valve to the captain's temper, but as an ash-tray to the junior officers; and it seems to symbolise the unaffected virtues of this gallant little play. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 860 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE GIRL IN THE FOG

... fair criminal called Naida, who with her other accomplishments combines that of skill on the violin, and you have crime tempered (slightlyi by humane art. Need less to say, the police have a look in, and here is a very pretty piece of sensation, which ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 82 | Tags: Review 

TERRY'S THEATRE

... when at length she came on as the heroine in the now familiar Madame Sans-Gcne, she was able so quickly to dispel the angry temper of an audience that had been growing angrier with every minute of delay. Mme. Rejane triumphed most in the earlier passages ...

TREAD SOFTLY. By LADY MILES

... invalid as prescribing a dose of your indigestion medicine. These clinical niceties throw light on Mervyn's outbursts of temper. Eve was wistful and womanly but the lukewarm soup and tea made with out boiling water do not appear to have been entirely ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1926
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: O Mistress Mine (St. James's)

... lost her W temper and smashed a gramo phone record over Noel Coward's head, she created an agreeable sensation that is still talked about in the more fashionable mewses with bated breath. The fact that it was Miss Lawrence's very own temper, the fact, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 609 | Page: 25 | Tags: Review 

The Beloved Enemy

... confronted a quite naturally selfish and pleasure-loving girl with a morbid young man of intensity, passion, and difficult temper. Physical beauty and great charm of manner condone her selfishness, and his rough gaucherie is balanced by unusual depths ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Apocalypse

... man is not, surely, another angry man. The time, apparently, has not yet come when Lawrence can be discussed without loss of temper, but until that time comes no just critical estimate of his work is likely to be made. Apocalypse, a long essay on the last ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 227 | Page: 78 | Tags: Review 

Autumn

... The two men are not more distinguished and, on the whole, the palm for grip of character must be given to Deirdre's bad-tempered husband. However, readers will doubtless bo found to unravel sympathetically the ill-assorted couples. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

NORA PAYS. BY LUCILLE VAN SLYKE

... NORA PAYS. By Lucille Van Slyke. (Methuen 7s. 6d.) 1NCUXA LAIS. tsy L.UCILLE VAN SLYKE. (Methuen 7s. 6d.) Nora paid for her temper, for running away from her husband and babies, and for her ambitious dash at a Fifth Avenue [Continued overleaf Continued ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 82 | Tags: Review