Refine Search

Date

Countries

Place

London, London, England

Access Type

158

Type

126
32

Public Tags

Pictures in the Fire

... THERE is an old and very sage saying that a drunken man gets sober, but that a B.F. never gets wise. Our judiciary still keeps up the legal fiction that it does not know for what these letters stand, any more than it is prepared to admit what the letters N.B.G. mean. It is only when a dis- tinguished lawyer is elevated to the Bench that his mind becomes a complete blank where these matters of ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 80 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

ON WORMS

... ORIGINAL research in this field has hitherto been very meagre, though some very sound experimental work has been carried out by Professor Melton Mowbray in helping to determine whether worms in turning veer naturally due south to Cannes and Monte 'Carlo, or south-south-east towards Venice. Few really big thinkers had studied worms with any enthusiasm until their attention was drawn to them by ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Photographs 

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... MRS. JONES went out shopping. When she returned, she saw that the Post Office engineers had arrived with their van outside her house. There they were, to her disgust, with a pole and a hole in the ground. Whereupon she proceeded to tell them all about it. ...

PETROL VAPOUR: The Hitch-biker

... GIVING lifts is good form in wartime, although even the most patriotic can't be blamed for taking their pick of what pedestrianism is about. And, anyway, a tramp is accustomed to legging it, while a good-looking typist is not. Well, the other day I met a hitch-biker, which was a new one on me. He waved becomingly beside his bicycle at the foot of a two-mile climb, and I stopped to find out ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 76 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

ALL BRANCHES OF THE ARMY ARE NOW BUSY

... THE INFANTRY CARRY ON IN SPITE OF A SPOT OF RAIN IN HAMPSHIRE Dangling bayonet and gas mask, these stalwart young men of Britain's new Infan try plough through the mud and slush with the disregard for comfort of Old Soldiers THE R.A.S.C. DISGUISE THEM- The four-legged beasts are not ousted alto- SELVES DURING A MOVEMENT geth f|,°m *!?e Army. The R.A.S.C. still Tun^nru u/on rw rniinmv have ...

BRITAIN'S WAR-TIME COUNCIL OF TEN: The Ministry of Supply and Its Plans For the Better Conduct of the War

... BRITAIN'S WAR-TIME COUNCIL OF TEN The Ministry of Supply and Its Plans For the Better Conduct of the War Described by NOEL THOMPSON IN time of war one should, I suppose, change one's perspective from the individual to the national, from the perfect miniature to the vast canvas of a great task. I admit to finding this difficult, but an examination of the newest of our ministries, the Ministry ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1876 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Photographs