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Passion and the Pilot: Romance and Tragedy interwoven in a plot to sink a ship on the Barrier Reef

... Passion and the Pilot Romance and Tragedy interwoven in a plot to sink a ship on the Barrier Reef By Beatrice Grimshaw IT had been wonderful, once. To step up from the already high places where the liner commanders stood; to become one of the sacred sixteen, the grand lamas of the sea. To be a pilot of the Great Barrier Reef, than which there is nothing more important in the merchant services ...

Your Good Looks

... There are innumerable types of beauty, says Elizabeth Arden, and only one key to looking superlative in any of them-- a clean skin. This does not mean a skin that has been superficially washed, but one that has been cleared of impurities through and through, until it presents a perfect breathing conduit to the lower tissues. When this has been achieved, every cell of the seven and more layers ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1108 | Page: Page 47, 73 | Tags: Illustrations 

worms

... --a danger to every dog, easily and safely overcome by Bob Martin worm medicines. Precautionary worming should be part of a dog's regular health routine (at least once in three months). The symptoms of infestation are staring coat, thinness, bad breath, variable appetite, pot belly in puppies, husky cough, and depraved appetite (eating coal, garbage, etc). Bob Martin worm medicines are ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 111 | Page: Page 85 | Tags: Illustrations 

DAWN

... I i I I 1 I I I By R. C. PETER i 1 I i i EXHIBITED AT THE i i ROYAL ACADEMY i i 1 UNITED J i ARTISTS' EXHIBITION i AT i BURLINGTON HOUSE ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 38 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

LONDON ELECTROTYPE AGENCY, LTD

... 23-24 FETTER LANE, LONDON, E.C.4 TAKE-TO-PIECES MODEL IN COLOUR OF R.M.S. QUEEN MARY There are few fhings more intriguing and insfrucfive than ihese movable deck models of R.M.S. QUEEN MARY. Deck by deck the ship's wonderful inferior may be examined; correct and to scale. The decks are numbered, and all details can be indentified easily by reference to a guide supplied. The model is 1 2 ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 95 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Jorkens Consults a Prophet: Bystander Short Story

... Jorkens Consults a Prophet Bystander Short Story Lord Dunsany It was the usual thing at the Billiards Club, a thing that happens too often: Jorkens was known to be coming up the stairs, and one or two members, simply with the deliberate intention of getting the conversation where he was unlikely to join in-- that is to say, away from Africa or any of the wilder. lands had chosen philosophy ...

FIGHTING UNITS: No. 15

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 15 Even if the enemy does not know where Somewhere is, he will, very quickly and unpleasantly, if he tries to get fresh. Of that fact, at any rate, he is acutely aware, and he is also cognisant of some other unpleasant possibilities Somewhere in France even the B.B.C. were permitted to put this over the air a little while ago, so there is no danger (to us) in mentioning it ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 167 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 565 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BRITISH PATENT PERFORATED PAPER CO. LTD

... 'HE BRITISH PATENT PERFORATED PAPER CO. LTD. Even the wealthiest cannot but/ better than BRONCO TOII I T AIM R Even those of modest means cannot but/ more econoniicalli/ In Bronco Toilet Rolls quality and value are, to a remarkable degree, linked with economy. Where, for instance, is there a toilet paper so smooth, so soft, and yet so strong as Bronco Or where is it possible to buy a roll ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 133 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Racing Ragout

... By QUINTIN GILBEY IF a politician with no practical knowledge of racing was made senior steward of the Jockey Club, would the result be exactly harmonious, and when, in due course, his views failed to coincide with those of such experts as Lord Rosebery, Lord Harewood, Sir Humphrey de Trafford and others who have spent a lifetime at the game, would the popular Press immediately assume that he ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1116 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

POLAND'S PLIGHT IN CARTOON

... CONSCIENCE IS A JEWISH INVENTION HITLER THANK YOU, SCOUNDREL APOSTLES OF LEARNING IN POLAND HIS ADVISER It ft, DO NOT FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DO BROTHERHOOD IN SUFFERING It is appropriate that these wonderfully conceived and executed cartoons of the suffering lately brought upon Europe should be by the hand of that Polish-Jewish artist whose most famous peacetime work is an ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations