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The Letters of Eve

... should have had to write to The Times to say how aw'fly annoying it was that people would say he'd been shot as a spy. 'Spose the rumour arose 'cos so little's been seen of him lately, though his sisters. Princess Pless and the Duchess of Westminster- ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2307 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: CANADA'S NEW OIL-FIELD: HOW TO ARRANGE TYRES: AN UNRECORDED SPY HUNT; An Important ..

... FIELD HOW TO ARRANGE TYRES AN UNRECORDED SPY HUNT. An Important Discovery. Very welcome from every point of view is the news that an immense oil-field has been dis covered in Northern Alberta, Canada. Rumours, it is true, have been flying about for some ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1059 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

PROUD MAISIE, A ROMANCE OF 1745, BY EDWARD G. HEMMERDE, K.C., AT THE ALDWYCH

... cousin), discussing with the heroine and his sisters, Mhorag [Miss Madge Fabian) ana Jean Miss Margaret Dempsey) the rumour thai MacAlpine is a spy. 2. The love scene in the armoury of Pitcour Castle between Lady Maisie Miss Alexandra Carlisle and Neil MacAlpine ...

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... to the infinite pain of his family bandied from mouth to mouth as reincarnated in the shape of a German spy and a commander of Zeppelins. ()ne rumour went so far as to state with magnificent unreason and great particularity that he was actually in charge ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1588 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... and Walery and Topical. Lieutenant-Colonel George Cornwallis-West has publicly denied the persistent rumours that he has been 4 shot in England as a spy.' He has commanded since September one of the battalions of the Royal Naval Division which fought at ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 575 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Spies

... The Fear. gut then everybody was spy-wraught in those days. There is nothing which makes people so afraid as the rumour that they have a spy in their midst. There is always some thing sinister, almost uncanny, about a spy. We imagine him a silent, furtive ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2476 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

BYSTANDER COMMENTS: ON VARIOUS TOPICS; OF THE TIMES; High Policy

... to say, if by no means agree ably) off Tangier that Queen Alexandra had visited the Evening Ncivs Doll Show that the British spy had been sentenced in Germany; that a French nurse had given her life to save three children; and that the Insurance Bill, though ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1205 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 17 August 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 646 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

BELLICOSITIES

... being detained by various reasons in Europe. Now we wonder what these reasons can be A TONSORIAL TRANSFORMATION How a German spy, by trade a barber, with the aid of a pair of scissors and a pot of glue, successfully disguised himself and his pet dachshund ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

Phillip in Particular: I.--The Tab=Exterminator

... fact, said Erkenwald with guile. That 's our spy lock-up. And a nasty place too, admitted Phillip. Do you have many spies I hope not, said Erkenwald fervently. That is, I hope not for the sake of the spy. He will have a loathly time in that dug out ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2931 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS

... f CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS |Q THE greatly exaggerated report that Colonel George Corn wallis-West had been shot as a spy began with the milder but still utterly ridiculous story that he had been confined in the Tower. At any rate, he was there in good ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1092 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs