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Some Odds and Ends

... evening, hearing a noise of revelry in the streets, went out on to his hotel balcony to see what was happening. A stray bullet, fired into the air by a drunken reveller, killed him, and the world lost a good man in almost as stupid a way as possible. Now Mr ...

Published: Tuesday 21 August 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1164 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

FILMS of the DAY: The General, the Private, and the Public

... actual records, including the Up, Guards, and at 'em episode, is a little invalidated by a line which even Mr. Arliss cannot make convincing, when, with Napoleon in sight and range, he savs that generals do not fire on generals In modem warfare, of course ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 840 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Some Holiday Reading

... bullet for setting fire to Zeppelins was brought to the Ministry of Munitions. It was called the Pomeroy bullet, and naturally there was great excitement about it. Then a strange thing happened. The secret was most carefully guarded, yet one of our staff ...

Published: Tuesday 17 July 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1201 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... adventurer. I cannot quite agree with Mr. Macdonell that this Marshal, who fought his way out of the ranks of the Prussian Guard when he wished to desert, who could trounce a powerful representative of the people before whom all men shook, could have been ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1934
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2178 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review