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From Cocktails to Port

... A READER tells me this one. Four golfers, one an American, were having a few drinks after a round when the result of the Women's golf cham pionship came through. We'll have a drink on this, said one of the Englishmen, and the toast is Miss Diana Fishwiclc ...

The Drag on Wakes: The RED FLAG: No. 6

... her hung something of the American high-school girl. Little Kuei-fei looked up, seriously. It is wonderful that we Chinese women are now emanci pated that we can help the Revolution just as if we were men can also dedicate our lives to China COMRADE WANG ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8110 | Page: 57 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Haut Monde of Crookdom

... bearing his signature, linked them in a business way over this deal. The police, baffled, apologised, and left. INTERNATIONAL crime specialists will tell you that as a rule women are easier game than men for the wiles of the male spider. But the male spiders ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4068 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Racketeers

... dare say it was forgotten. No one else in England knew, except one man a trooper in the Cape Police who had something to do with my trial. A bad man in a fine corps, Jerry. He was sacked, came to England and met me, quite by chance. Thirty years ago, and ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5787 | Page: 96 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Fragrant Nineteen-Twenties

... good-humoured through it all, and played football with the police. In the end they challenged the police to a football game at Portsmouth, and promised to stop the General Strike if they lost. The police won the game, and the crisis ended. Everybody agreed ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3474 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

ONE MONTH of HISTORY: A Survey of Current Events During February, 1933

... whether the right hon. gentleman really believed in people flogging children. BIG PARADE. Police Commissioner Lord Trenchard mobilized 15,000 police and auxiliaries, in fighting order, to cope with a giant Sunday demonstration in Hyde Park, organized by ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2723 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

GOING OUT TO GOINGS-ON ..: The Bystander in Society

... Majesty's Bodyguard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms were on duty in the Throne Room during the awarding of the various Insignia. Lord Lucan and Colonel Sir St. John Gore are the Captain and Lieutenant of this Corps; the latter was for many years ...

Published: Tuesday 06 March 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1735 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

Pell Street Blues: The Story of a Chinese Feud

... days later, Na Liu became the coolie's bride, while Yang Shen-Li travelled South to Pekin. to be a cantain in Manchu banner corps and rise high in the favour of the Dowager Empress SHE was a faithful wife to Foh Wong, since it was her duty obeying the ancient ...

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

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

... Heidelberg, its students, their corps, their fantastic uniforms, their grave, elaborate rituals of beer- drinking and duelling all the tradi tional Old Heidelberg stuff seems tem porarily doomed. The aristocratic Saxo- Borussia Corps, which made such fun of Hitler's ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2130 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations