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GRAINS OF KNOWLEDGE

... to be numbered in London was one abutting east of Northumberland House, Strand. Doll Pentreath, the last person who could speak the Cornish language, died at the age of 91 in 1777. : The Chinese and Tibetans have a week of five days. named after iron ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Eastern Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IN THE GARDEN Flower Novelties for 1938

... are best sown in May and June in the open ground, and the seedlings trans. planted while they are still quite small. When speaking of hardy perennie.ls we mean all those plants that belong to the hardy plant border. They possess either woody or fibrous ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

... CZECHOSLOVAKIA Prague Metropol Hotel Zlata Husa.” (Golden Goose; Modem comfort, homelike, best food, centre of Eng.-speaking visitors and their friends. ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

In Quest of Good Hotels

... railway hotels (what a phrase are not what they used to be. A visit to the Manor 1 House will soon convince you that I inn'!' speaking the truth. Two hundred acres of private pari land, 18-liole golf course, hard and grass tennis courts, free trout-fishing ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 911 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

Table Of Contents

... 106 Travelling in Search of a Story by A rthur Mills Decorations by J. Nicolson 40, 41 and 84 Home Section JB Personally Speaking by Jean Burnup 56 K Look Pleasant, Please rS Fashions by Jean Burnup 58, 59 Id Wings on Your Feet 60 g|3 Adornments 61 H ...

L.P.T.N. AND QUEENSWAY. STATION NAMES NOT BEING ALTERED

... Queensway. But this important change of is not being recognised by the L.P.T.B. so far as their two stations are concerned. Speaking to our representative c zzterday, an official of the Board said: The reason is that of expense. It would cost us up to to ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTES FROM NEAR AND FAR: When the Blue Train Runs in Triplicate: February and March, the Ideal Months to See ..

... excellent spot for children as the sands are really wonderful. The place is not crowded. If you write to the proprietor (who speaks English) he will give you very good terms for yourself and children. St. Valery and Fecamp are also small places, but we think ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1446 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

Tan. 1, 1938 THERE ’S an air of sprawling magnificence about this winter’s exhibition at the Royal Academy, ..

... considered suitable subjects for a picture : art was no longer exclusively the servant of Church and Court. Commercially speaking, the painter’s market was widened and his subject-matter with it. That statement, of course, over-simplifies the position ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 278 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

M. YENUKIDZE

... birthday. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester on December 22. There they were joined by Queen Mary. Continuing the custom of speaking to arrived at Sandringham on December 25 and, with the other members of the party. his peoples on Christmas Day, initiated ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 629 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Strange Habits in Strange Places

... Equatorial Africa. They have great wooden discs let into their faces, usually above and below the mouth, so that when they try to speak they make a noise like castanets or the quack of a duck. They start, as small children, inserting small pegs or buttons, which ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2750 | Page: 12, 13, 115 | Tags: Illustrations 

These Jobs are Dangerous..

... months and costing £300,000, will show the geological and other conditions to which the main tunnel must conform it is, so to speak, a prospecting of the route. Then the main tunnel, which absorbs the pilot, will take another two years. During the whole ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2880 | Page: 18, 19, 97, 98 | Tags: Photographs