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Standing By ...: A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another

... d'etat, coronations, revolutions, and royal tours all over the globe, Sir Percival Phillips, who has just died in a London nursing-home, lived in chambers in Chancery Lane, collected Japanese prints, and mingled in his club with friends to whom his sudden ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2372 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Weekly Commentary on One Thing and Another Standing By

... gered, the Cyprian herself, suddenly appeared, exquisite and imperious, while Maj or Chokesmith was dressing for dinner Pretty damn embarrassing, what Sort of French idea, what And suppose the Queen of Love took a blind fancy to the Major, and followed him ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2400 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

Article

... of crowned heads to Earl's Court. Queen Victoria had a command performance to herself. Her children and grand-children watched it in the presence of the public, who were overjoyed at the girlish delight of Alexandra, Princess of Wales, in climbing on ...

Published: Friday 28 November 1930
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3125 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Mrs. Stitch Fails for the First Time: A Topical Satire in the Author's Best Manner

... crushed and bedraggled, he had been tossed into the editor's chair of the Imperial and Foreign News. His heart bled for Mr. Boot, but he was true to the austere tradi tions of his service. He made the reply that had silenced so many resentful novices in the ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4954 | Page: 92 | Tags: Illustrations 

Fifty Years Ago: An Old Soldier tells the Story of a Wooden Spear Dipped in the Heroic Blood of--Gordon

... saw the sudden and swift rise of an empire larger in extent than Europe. I saw that em pire ground under the iron heel of a military dictator, every vestige of liberty and justice swept away. I saw more than three- quarters of the population perish beneath ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8768 | Page: 98 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Pell Street Blues: The Story of a Chinese Feud

... of the century, at about the same time when Foh Wong paid off the twenty thousand dollar mortgage on his Pell Street house military governor of his native province. With every rise in the other's fortunes, Foh Wong's ambition grew. His hate, expressed by ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7320 | Page: 90 | Tags: Illustrations 

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At the Coq d'Or

... and some others. The success of the Coq d'Or justified the somewhat menial service it imposed upon its organisers. It was not easy for men technically untrained or purely military to maintain themselves in a post-war, competitive world of specialists. They ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5458 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations