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The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and an ornament thereunto. Authors, publishers and booksellers, not to speak of the unconsidered journalist who writes of books, wore all busy in that spirit for this Yule and this New Year. Even so, ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1400 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

A RUGBY CAUSERIE

... His complaint is that they are too conscious of their own importance, and assert themselves a great deal too much. Generally speak ing, of course, the better the referee the less obtrusive he is. The last thing the really sound official wants is to force ...

IN THE PETROL WORLD

... Ship and Shaftesbury Homes ^Phe following statistics of that excellent Training Ship, Arethusa, for the last twelve months speak volumes for the good work which is being done Letters received from old boys, 144. Visits paid to ship by old boys, 136. Good ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1359 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING: LAND, AIR, AND WATER

... absolutely unprecedented feat, reflecting the highest credit on the Services, as well as on the designers and builders. Correctly speaking, this class of performance is a semi-official achievement, in that the Government supplied the necessary per sonnel, and ...

HOW BELGIUM will REBUILD her TOWNS

... ction of Belgium. Strangely enough, this term is generally employed to designate everything but reconstruction properly speaking, that is to say, the actual rebuilding of houses and monuments, either in the devastated area of the war-zone, in West Flanders ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1157 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

CIRCULAR NOTES

... When I first began to take an interest in racing a real professional interest, sup posing that to be the correct way of speaking, I mean when I began to write about it regularly Porter had long been a leading figure in the racing world; and I am going ...

HOW BELGIUM will REBUILD her TOWNS

... ction of Belgium. Strangely enough, this term is generally employed to designate everything but reconstruction properly speaking, that is to say, the actual rebuilding of houses and monuments, either in the devastated area of the war-zone, in West Flanders ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1157 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and an ornament thereunto. Authors, publishers and booksellers, not to speak of the unconsidered journalist who writes of books, wore all busy in that spirit for this Yule and this New Year. Even so, ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1400 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

The of Letters Evelyn

... tremendous majority behind him, came back to power, and later introduced the first Home Rule Bill, whose great grandchild, so to speak, is the one thing that everyone is talking about at present. All the comments about Lloyd George's scheme are really amusing ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1920
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2759 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends

... Christian thafyt has no vigour left to clean up and Christianise the dirt and heathenism at home. It would rather, metaphorically speaking (I had vowed never to use that expression again in the New Year, but well, there it is!), bring the ideals of Western ci ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1920
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2576 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: Twelfth Night

... one-candle-power when compared with the eyes of the soul. See how they blink in VEST ME. in ry iMOTi_Ey Cr'VE r-iE leave. to speak My mino.. THE WIFE OF A NEW BARON LADY STANLEY. Lady Stanley is the wife of the Rt. Hon. Sir Albert Stanley, P.C., M.P., late ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1045 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Other People's Troubles A Paris Letter

... is no stage. Perhaps I should say that the whole theatre is the stage. The decor does not stop at a given point. The actors speak from among the audience and not from behind the foot lights there are no footlights. Steps as wide as the auditorium go up ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1167 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs