Refine Search

Countries

England

Place

London, London, England

Access Type

880

Type

574
306

Public Tags

Never Really Ill, But Never Really Well: WISE WORDS ABOUT BEAUTY

... v e r cR^j ally Hut v e r Ideally IV e 1 1 WISE WORDS ABOUT S&At IP 1 By CHRYSIS If you require further details or want help for your individual problems, write to me at Britannia and Eve, 32-34 St. Bride Street, London, E.C.4. i Don't keep on suppressing sleeplessness, dizziness, indigestion, breathlessness, headaches, attacks of drowsi ness, gnawing sensations of hunger shortly after meals, ...

Other

... COUNTRY POUNTRY ^GLOVES GLOVES FRONTS With No. 12 pins and green wool, cast on 26 sts. 1 si row Knit. and vow *Iv.2, P.2. Repeat from ending K.2. Work 6 ins. Continue in stocking st. 1st FINGER Take 1st 7 sts. from hand. Cast on 1 st. (8 sts.). Work 2 A ins. SHAPE TOP 1 st row (K.i, K. 2 tog. twice), K. 2 tog. 2nd row P. 1 (P. 2 tog. twice.) Cast off tightly. 2nd FINGER Cast on 1. Take next 7 ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 774 | Page: Page 66, 120 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

The New Cars are now on the Road

... By The Earl of Cardigan i I HAVE once or twice commented on the apparent folly of the motor trade in holding their show in October-- a month when few private motorists are in the mood to buy. Please, note that I say apparent folly, for actually this is a case where there is a good deal of method in what may at first sight look like madness. For example, we have now had six months since the ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3704 | Page: Page 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91 | Tags: Photographs 

The LANCHESTER

... [Me. [anchester i 7%e ANCHESTER The cur that gives gou EVERYTHING Take it on the road and your praise will know no bounds. Fly along at 70, and the indepen dent front wheel springing carries you without pitch or sway, while Lanchester steering gives effortless control. Crawl through traffic, and the Daimler fluid flywheel makes jerks impossible, lets you forget gear lever and clutch entirely. ...

WARNER BROS. (CORSETS) LTD

... The luxury corset of the world is Le Gant but that does not mean that a Le Gant is not within the reach of women of moderate means. To pav from 4 12 guineas for a Foundation garment is probably not within the budget of the majority of women; but the principles of making as applied to Le Gant are carried out through the whole range to a garment as low priced as 21/-.' 3texe is. economy. 'To ...

Death of a Dictator: How a speech that should have shaken the world became a pæan of peace

... Death of a Dictator How a speech that should have shaken the world became a paean oj peace By Alan Kennington THE linden trees outside the long Chancellery windows were in full leaf now, the Shepherd could watch them shine like amber in the sunshine every time he looked up from his desk. Once or twice he frowned for a moment abstractedly with a sudden nostalgic memory of that street in the ...

The B. B. C. Calls it a Day

... T he B.B.G. j Calfs it a Day By C. Whitaker-Wilson WHAT the B.B.C. calls a day is a day; they mean it literally up at Broadcasting House. At all events, anything left over is not worth considering. I have borrowed one of their lists of studio allocations-- one refer ring to December 30 last, as a matter of fact; but it is typical of the list for to-day or to-morrow. The first thing on it is ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

CLUB LIFE FOR WOMEN

... ml r; ,'vV.^.^v II llll I1IIIII1I tgiilllif '''S3 1 Xi. 1 ■■s&'S-y&A' Unlike American women, English women are not yet very club minded. In the United States, where social activity for the middle-class woman of moderate means is more highly organised than here, you hear less of bored and house-bound women. Clubs are partly responsible for this improved state of affairs. The average woman of ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1139 | Page: Page 40, 41, 140, 142 | Tags: Photographs 

PARK WARD AND COMPANY LIMITED

... i PARK WARD V AND COMPANY LIMITED PARK WARD i AND COMPANY LIMITED J J THE KING'S HIGHWAY HAS NOTHING FINER 4h'litre Bentley Close-Coupled Coupd Purity of line, matchless comfort, impeccable finish the union of these qualities in Park Ward coach- work on Bentley chassis is no happy accident. It is the outcome of an unparalleled experience in the production of luxurious carriages, allied to a ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 96 | Page: Page 84 | Tags: Photographs 

North to the Fiords and South to the Sun: Cruising Plans for 1939

... North to the Fjords and South to the Sun Cruising Plans for 1939 WHEN the Quennells of the future come to write their History of Everyday Things in England in the Twentieth Century it will be their lot to record a host of changes in social life, and not least among those changes will be with regard to the manner of taking holidays. i-or nouoays in mis new age nave an entirely new meaning. The ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 610 | Page: Page 93 | Tags: Photographs 

LAGONDA

... ll LSI W. 1 1 lit IS I Lb X a MAS It n r I fc 1. t Lii^nndii Owners Speak have had the car in my H possession for a considerable time and it has responded to every H I call which I have made upon it in the most remarkable way. H I This car of really generous dimensions has a top speed on Continental roads of about 109/110 m.p.h. and it cruises along i ery comfortably at 90 m.p.h. Its road ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 131 | Page: Page 98 | Tags: Photographs 

PHOSFERINE TONIC WINE

... PHOSFERIN E TONIC WINE PHOSFERIN E TONIC WINE ^PRESSION^mSHE^ ANOTHER STRIKING TRIBUTE TO I take Phosferine Tonic Wine at 1 1 a.m. and at 3 p.m., also as a nightcap, and believe me, I derive from it wonderful nights of sleep. I get up very fresh in the morning having lost that tired feeling and after taking a couple of bottles I am now a different woman. Phosferine Tonic Wine stimulates, ...