... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis RAT Week and Sanitary Sunday and Potato Day and a dozen other feasts of obligation with octave established by the Government so far being not enough for some people, an Admiral M.P. has proposed an entirely new Kalendar, we observe, with 26 weekdays in every month and other pleasures and excitements. It won't be adopted, of course. Like the French ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndliam Lewis FAIRLY accurately, a special correspon dent has described the rich rolling Norman battleground, with its apple- orchards and deep lanes and white farms and ancient market-towns as England without ribbon development, hoardings, fake-Tudor tea-shoppes, or Jacobean petrol- stations. The ideal modern battleground, from the single standpoint of those ...

... ii i ii ii ii ami mu K Stories from Everywhere THIS anecdote comes from Peterborough's admirable column in the Daily Telegraph: A submarine commander recently returned from a Mediterranean patrol reported that he had been mystified by seeing many circular objects floating in the water. At first he thought they were probably mines and took precautions accordingly. After I had avoided about ...

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... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis IF Hitler and Eva Braun have fled to Patagonia, as reported recently to the U.S. Embassy at Buenos Aires, they must have enjoyed a fair amount of music by this time, for our hairy and songful kinsmen the Welch have a large colony there, as you may know. Undoubtedly Hitler's advisers, with that tireless German passion for detail, have foreseen and ...

... Pinocchio Walt Disney, like the Blue Fairy, brings the puppet to life in his second full-length colour cartoon For the screen successor to German Jacob Grimm's Snow White, Disney has turned to the other end of the ex-axis, and picked an Italian fable set down by Collodi. The story of Pinocchio, the puppet hoy who comes to life, has provided Dr. Disney's genius with the ideal frame tor ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis SOMEBODY or other in touch with French feeling put it neatly enough the other day when he said there are practically only two kinds of people in France at this moment-- those who want les Anglais to win and those who want ces cochons d'Anelais to win. We have known members of the Island Race to be curiously sensitive about being called pigs in ...

... : Bruce Bairnsfather Just think, if only you and I was Gort and Ironside There 'd he none of this foot sloggin'. They'd send a lorry for us C Bruce Bairnsfather ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis A BITTER American citizen who cried recently that between the American and the British bureaucrat there is not a pin to choose, erred damnably. Both types admittedly have horrible cold dead eyes, like oysters, sober but natty suitings, and a soul like a withered peanut; but the American bureaucrat, like the French rond- de-cuir, does not flaunt the ...

... One Thing and Another j 3 By D. B. Wyndham Lewis NEITHER of the two German spies-- the first of this war-- recently executed at Pentonville was a ravishing blonde with magnetic eyes, but we understand the Secret Service boys are straining every nerve to find one. Fleet Street is prepared to give them every latitude, and has promised to describe even a kind of battered district visitor like ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK THE vicar had called for tea, and during the conversation got on to one of his pet subjects, and went on and on talking. The small child of the house sat open- mouthed, drinking it all in. Then, suddenly, when the worthy man paused for breath, she turned to her mother and asked Mummy, didn't he bring his Amen with him DO you believe in prayer little Peter asked the vicar. Of ...

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