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Claire Boothe Speaks for Democracy

... Claire Boothe Speaks for Democracy Claire Boothe and her husband Henry Luce are by no means the least influential couple in the United States. He publishes three of America's best known magazines Time'' Life and Fortune. She is a journalist in her own ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 227 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: A MUSIC ARTICLE

... transference to the keyboard. In the recording, the narrator speaks English with that precision which marks the foreign linguist, as English people never think it worth while to use so much care in speaking their own language. This naturally makes him sound rather ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... Prime Minister, Mr. Priestley, whose Sunday night Postscripts have made hiin one of the most popular men in the country. He speaks for ordinary people everywhere, expressing their thoughts and hopes, and sometimes their discontents. But he is much more ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 219 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO: MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON

... the two leaders, Hitler and Winston Churchill, saying that they are the very symbols of the struggle. She said And when you speak, Churchill, brave men's hearts everywhere rush out to you. There are no neutral hearts except those that have stopped beating ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... things out loud. You are dubbed a pessimist if you take too gloomy a view. You seek vainly to be an optimist without, so to speak, having anything definitely optimistic to hang on to. Briefly, you flounder, searching desperately for a foothold. And there ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1279 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... soon as she was free. GENERAL RAYMOND E. LEE-- for being reappointed U.S.A. Military Attache in London, perhaps be cause he speaks the language SIR GEORGE WILKINSON (here seen with LADY WILKINSON) for taking on the duties and responsi bilities of Lord Mayor ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 364 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

SINGING BEA

... the Bottom of My Garden Here you can see the incomparable Bea five times over-- giving a singing bee all of her own, so to speak. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATO.V. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 88 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITAIN'S INCALCULABLE ASSET-- THE QUEEN

... of work carried on by the women of the Empire to carry this country toicards victory. Recently one of the American papers, speaking of this country in time of war, referred to her Majesty as 44 one of Britain's incalculable assets which reflects the admiration ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

All is Safely Gathered In

... useful, especially on those small grass farms that were previously growing no corn at all. Though it is not yet possible to speak definitely of yields, the increased acreage under corn means there '11 be a larger tonnage of grain in the nation's larder ...

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Frankness Without Malice

... perfect honesty. I think it must be a very com forting illusion because I so seldom experience it myself. The trouble is that to speak one's mind leaves too often the spoken word behind it while the mind has suffered a later illumination. And the words remain ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2288 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

The Anzacs Again--a Classic Picture

... Dominions Secretary before they landed at Suez. Here Mr. Eden, who flew out to Cairo bearing special messages from the King, was speaking to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. With the contingents of the Second A.I.F. they made up, it is said, one of the biggest ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Jealous of Happiness

... as modern young men go. It is all completely souffle, so to speak, but it is mixed and cooked by an expert. And that is no bad quality in wartime, when most meals are, metaphorically speaking, too much like increasing the dead weight of an indigestible ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2371 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs