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... After five years' service on Continental Roads During my life as a motorist I have never travelled in a car less fatiguing to drive and enabling one to arrive so fresh at one's destination even on very long trips such as 750 Kms at one go in less than ten hours. This is thanks to the good roaddholding qualities of the car, precise steering, good springing, reliability and efficacy of the ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 112 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

More Fragments from France

... By Brace Bairnsfather I say, don't even breathe the name of this place to anybody. Not a soul knows it 's H.Q. Bruce Bainfather ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 28 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Bystander Short Story Impotence

... Josephine Blumenfeld ANOTHER day has passed. Warm and relaxed in bed I can review it carefully. It seems a great time since this morning, when I said to my self: To-day, my dearest, we are going to do things properly; we are going to finish what we start; we are going to be calm and quiet; we are going to concentrate. When I am talking to myself, I always call myself dearest not because I am ...

The Bystander in 1916: Found in a French billet, 1940

... The Bystander in 1916 Found in a French billet, 1940 THF PASSING HOUR IN 1916: WAR EFFORT, PROPAGANDA, MUSIC The Duration of the War: As to that classic phrase, unless we propose to accept the war as a permanent institution, the sooner we make up our minds to give up everything to it, whether on railway tickets or out of reserved occupations, without grumbling, the sooner we shall begin to ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 451 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

... , , THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN 66 INSIDE KNOWLEDGE A large number of the informative dia grammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. Davis, which have been published from time to time in , are now available in collected form in a special 32-page publi cation entitled INSIDE KNOWLEDGE.'' This will appeal to all who want to know the inner workings of things which the ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 195 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: COLD PRINT

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. COLD PRINT. DO you realise, blasé reader, that in order to enable you to read this page-- in itself a priceless boon of civilisation-- and, what is more, to read it with ease and comfort, not to mention edification: do you realise, I say, that five hundred years of unremitting effort and ingenuity have been necessary? And now you are reminded of this interesting ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1106 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA No. 2. THE ST. REGIS--THE SHOW AND THE SPECTATORS

... CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 2. THE ST. REGIS-- THE SHOW AND THE SPECTATORS. Mr. Buttress coincided with the duck. The preparation of Canelon Sauvage d la Presse. Dancers in uniform at the St. Regis. Jack Doyle and his wife. Right Thank you vairy much. M. Josef Marion. A camera's view of the preparation of Crepes Suzette. The Hoi Theodora Benson engrossed by ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 200 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON: Authors of Foreigners; or the World in a Nutshell.; No. 2. THE ST. REGIS

... CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners; or the World in a Nutshell. No. 2. THE ST. REGIS. THE St. Regis, said Bill to the taxi- driver, with rather a lordly air. Laura could hardly believe that the sandy-haired little boy of twelve, down whose back she had once slipped a jelly-fish, had blos somed out not only into an Air Force uniform but ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

Covers

... TripleX Safety GUss jr..,8.'. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

WAR AND 'KULTUR' IN POLAND--BY A POLISH SOLDIER-ARTIST: BRILLIANT AND SATIRIC MODERN CARICATURES

... WAR AND 'KULTUR' IN POLAND-- BY A POLISH SOLDIER-ARTIST. BRILLIANT AND SATIRIC MODERN CARICATURES. Arthur szyk, a Jew and a Pole, and proud of both, is a miniaturist-illuminator of distinction hut the rape of his country by the powers of darkness, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, has in spired him to produces scries of bitter and striking caricatures, showing the war in Poland through the vic ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations