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The Clubman: Club Tips

... or rather, Tay Pay is amusing. Mr. O'Connor has always been a rattling debater. One night in the House of Commons I am speaking of the early 'eighties Mr. O'Connor was more than usually fiery and effective. When he sat down a fellow-countryman in the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1215 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WHO, WHEN & WHERE: BY THE BYSTANDER IN SOCIETY; The Royal Christmas

... has had all the others in the peerage, in addition to inheriting his father's barony of Scarsdale. The Dukedom of Argyll Speaking of the creation of Dukes, to be strictly accurate one ought to say that the Dukedom of Argyll was the last to be created ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3116 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

The Riviera: Week by Week

... the Bois de Boulogne during half the year and plays tennis in the South all the winter --that a luncheon club for English-speaking residents and visitors, on the lines of the American Club in Paris, might be a good idea. Ik made the suggestion to a group ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1417 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Femina: Not Wisely--But Too Well

... sake, are provokingly superior about their food. In the absence of tiresome husbands and people lots of them relapse, so to speak, into trays with tea and toast and a boiled egg. They have made, a fine virtue out of their defi ciencies. Very clever I call ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 871 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

Fashion's Fancies: Sales Ahead!

... prestige of a firm that prefers to carry on without the assist ance of a shop window. The fact is sufficiently significant to speak for itself, and, in pursuance of their usual custom, this house not merely marks down the price of all made-up coats, cloaks ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1948 | Page: 68 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: The Political Crisis; WEEK BY WEEK

... wonderful Passion Play at Oberammergau. There will be a great reluctance on the part of many English tourists to enter any German-speaking country for a long time to come. The horrors of that war have entered into too many British homes. Yet to see the Oberammergau ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3086 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHAT ABOUT RUGBY

... easy, as England has proved in recent years, to collect a set of stars into a formidable side whilst club form, generally speaking, is on the down grade. The poor displays of the Racing Club must not, therefore, lead us to think that France will have a ...

With RAISULI in MOROCCO: Part II

... and the protection of Great Britain had been promised him. After this he might have lived peacefully and waxed rich, but, speaking of the building of his great palace at Azeila, he said, One who has moulded the destinies of men could never be content with ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1641 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

SPORT of the WEEK: As Seen by the Camera

... the famous Julier Leap at Suvretta, near St. Moritz. The take-off,' which the jumper has just achieved is, comparatively speaking, as easy as falling off a log. The science comes at the moment of landing in the valley below. The slightest mistake means ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 485 | Page: 47 | Tags: Photographs 

BY STANDER COMMENTS: Taking Stock

... linen You might as well encourage your doctor to start in busi ness as an undertaker just as a side-line. Those Field Signs Speaking as one who loves the rolling English road, I extend the glad hand DILLY DALLY 1 DILLY DALLY 1 COME AND BE KILLED By Blam ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1577 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

RUGGER RAGGINGS: THE DAVIES DICTIONARY

... each case. There is nothing of the games coach about the book. A man coming off the field from a game a moment or two ago speaks to you, as from one player to another. Which is what every Rugger player wants. There is humour, too, thank goodness, and ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 870 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs