... sphere, is a household word in every nook and corner of the civilised world. He is none other than Douglas Fairbanks, the Dick Turpin of the films. To the general public the advent of Fairbanks in a serious national championship, which has brought together ...

... was made was ex gratia. It was to be regarded as a boon, and not as a right. The attendant is, in short, an official Dick Turpin but, fortunately, he is a very milk-and-water specimen. By boldly facing up to him you can call his bluff. You can refuse ...

... Sparkes Water one of the widest and deepest in the district. Woe to him who doesn't go for it with the determination of a Dick Turpin Now is the time to sit right down to it for the run-in. A youthful aspirant on a grey griffin is as light as a feather and ...

... in the blackest ink and bend it to the task, for our road signs are in sorry truth the civilised world's worst. When Dick Turpin rode to York there were to be found at each important crossing on the high roads a four-armed post, the four arms, each bearing ...

... his old successes, laugh and cry, just like their mothers did. R. A. Roberts, the protean actor, used to do his famous Dick Turpin act, ride to York and all. He can still do it as well as ever when he emerges from his retirement. Then there is Vesta Victoria ...

... in my grandfather's country house at Wimbledon, where I was born, and it served me for the coach which Robin Hood and Dick Turpin repeatedly held up. I doubt not it was the very pram in which my father visited the Exhibition of 1851. A Bit of Old London ...