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Old Tales Re-told: I Came, I Saw, I Conquered

... reported to Caesar. Only two cohorts the Guard were already armed and in fighting trim. At the head of these Caesar set out. He ordered two other cohorts to mount guard. He ordered the entire body, save for the Guard, to follow him. With but one-fifth of ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3217 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

Prisoners and Captives: From Pirate Galley to Convict Ship; Grim Records of Adventurous Days at Sea

... of a galley that had the preceding day continually fired on the British squadron. It being very dark probably we should not have found her, had not the soldiers on board betrayed her situation, by firing musketry at us having discovered the object of our ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3416 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 01 August 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 609 | Page: 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

Previous Rank..

... development. Yet, bon Dieu they don't make feeble-minded men officers, not even m trie Lnghsh Army, least of all in Guards Corps. Guards officer Yes, I forgot to tell you. The quartermaster's clerk is a little pickpocket cockney, ggj who's evidently had ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7599 | Page: 80 | Tags: Illustrations 

OLD TALES RE-TOLD: Paul and Thecla

... their hands. Some blue-eyed, fair-haired Gauls from the North. The gay, light-hearted Greeks. The stern Romans, whose legions guarded the frontier against the Parthians and upheld the Pax Romana of the world. A scattering of Jewish traders. All very typical ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1770 | Page: 47 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENTERTAINMENTS a la CARTE: A Great Big Stage Keeps Turning

... pre-British India there are two types of woman those who cast the fire- flower and belong to many, and those who get the lotus flower and are taken in marriage. Peggy Ashcroft, as a bayadere (or fire-flower lady) escaping from a brutal prince who wants her for- ...

Published: Wednesday 14 March 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 28 March 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 887 | Page: 55 | Tags: Illustrations 

Second Thoughts on First Nights: East Lynne (Little)

... the Lane. Remembering how my simple imagination was fired, as the play gripped harder at every episode, I can only point to the authors as men of great skill and cunning and warn you to be on your guard. Their chicanery is no better than the double treaty ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1046 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

Lost Landmarks: A Drama of the Australian Bush

... burnt gritty, charred pieces broke in his hand. Partly burnt wood that had been kicked aside when the camp fire was put out. The ashes of the camp fire must be near where he had found the piece of wood. He went down on his hands and knees, feeling blindly ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6198 | Page: 41 | Tags: Illustrations 

STABLE SECRETS

... never had no trouble wi' her teeth then it don't matter. He shook his old head slowly and smiled in the manner of one who guards stores of knowledge. Ah, had a bit of trouble wi' her teeth, she did. He paused again to allow the past to trickle into the ...