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WORDS OP THE WEEK

... Hudson * Lye]. Women still marry as sees as they sea. —Mr. IV. L. George. One artistic parent is enough toe am child.—Mrs. Joseph Conrad. I have never in my lite met anise who really wanted to die.—Lord Birkenhead. Teel3nysos certainly is the greatest genies ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1925
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

iI.L.S., AND STYLE

... Exclusive Present. To help one away from the other slavery—that of the Exclusive Past—there is a workmanlike essay on Joseph Conrad by F. ilelian Stowell. ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1921
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BY .. SAVA

... a great deal of his scientific genius. It is absurd even to guess who among modem authors are certain of immortality. Joseph Conrad is, I think, sure to be read by succeeding generations, so I think is Mr. Galsworthy. so 1 am sure is Mr. Bernard Shaw ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1924
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 256 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE PASSER-BY

... said name a big handicap to overcome. And we do not care a lot for writers with patronymics which belong to other lands. Joseph Conrad, for instance, was wise enouo to adopt a fairly English-sounding name for his job. His full name was Joseph Theodore Conrad ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1927
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 509 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A CONRAD PREFACE

... island. His thoughts must hare been rather those of Rupert Brooke about tipe lady who said, What a beautiful sunset! Mr. Joseph Conrad contributes a de. lightful preface on travellers new and old. He bemoans that Presently there will be no backyard left ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1923
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 295 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCULPTOR ANNOYED

... something representative of Mr. Epstein's works, a specimen had to b. , borrowed, and Mr. Muirhead Bone h aned a bust of Joseph Conrad. U.S. & DAVIS CUP. Tilden's Two Teams Plan Ca!can*. Sunday. After a stormy debate the Western Lawn Tennis Association ...

Published: Monday 13 February 1928
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 331 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

£1,750,000 WILL

... deprived of the rank of lieutenant on mnviction by the chit power. Alfred Born Conrad. ages 29, is the Moe* eon of the late Joseph Conrad, the novelist, and was sentenced to twelve months in tl:e second division at the Old Bailey on 22 July for convecting to ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1927
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 337 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ADCASTING

... Kennedy (viola); James I)onovnn (saxophone); Cura Aet le (pianoforte). from Birmingham. 9.30.— Heart o f Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. ,sad by H. S. FAe. 10.0.—Weather forecast; second gelteral news bulletin; road report, 10.13.—Jay Whidden's Band, from ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1928
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 295 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

7.l3.—Musical interlude

... n, by Sir Richard Itedmaytie. 7.4s.—Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson. 0.13.— Typhoon, a story of the China Seas, by Joseph Conrad. radio play adapted by John Watt and proby Peter CrefiweN 9.o.— d reanter forecast lid second general news bulletin I.lb ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1929
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 296 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BIEMINGII.I3I

... REFLECTION. The spirit only can teach.--Emerson, He remindsme, in that early light, with his trim beard and tagle glance, of Joseph Conrad, who must have stood and looked thus as he navigated the seas of the Malay Archipelago. We move cautiously, for now enter ...

Published: Tuesday 10 November 1925
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 393 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MEN AND AFFAIRS

... speakers seemed oppressed by something, and spoke in a mournful monotone which was decidedly depressing. How differently Joseph Conrad or Stephen Reynolds would have presented the same facts. Sir Auckland is not an inspiring speaker, but his incisiveness ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1920
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 447 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OLD SCHOOL

... fishermen which we can place beside this by Johan Boiler. Stephen Reynolds had the technique for it, but he has gone. Joseph Conrad could bring out the heroism of the fight against storm and ill-fortune, but not the bleak dullness. The Norwegian novelist ...

Published: Tuesday 14 August 1923
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 457 | Page: 4 | Tags: none