... The Tatler and Bystander Guide to Lunching, Dining and Dancing in Wartime London Maison Prunier IT was never to be expected that the indomitable Madame Prunier would for long permit the Luftwaffe to reduce her restaurant to half-pressure. So it is no ...

... should stay indoors and go to bed at ten like every other country-house guest And I explained that it was a professional point with me to dis cover how the man who genuinely lives in the country amuses himself in the evening. I discovered that he doesn't ...

... that hearts might be broken and happy endings be at a premium. But one can't have everything in wartime; and the scene, the drawing-room of an Irish country house, seemed to leave loopholes for comedy to elude the sterner impacts of tragedy, and to defy the ...

... lots and junk-heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flop-houses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches, ...