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Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 532 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BRISTLEWOODS SEE IT THROUGH

... . MRS. BRISTLEWOOD Who 's had my butter ration MR. BRISTLEWOOD Come, come, my dear, who do you suspect DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

PEACEFUL ENGLISH INTERIOR

... . This peaceful English conversation piece breathes the spirit of all that we are fighting to preserve. It was taken in the drawing-room of Weston Hall Tout ester, IS or than ts, the country home of MR. and MRS. SACHEVERELL SITWELL, who are seated on the right. LADY BRIDGET PARSONS is just visible on the sofa, and the DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER is busy with her petit-point in a chair by the fire. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE BRISTLEWOODS SEE IT THROUGH

... . MRS. BRISTLEWOOD You've dined too well. Say 'Totalitarianism. MR. BRISTLEWOOD Not fair Can't say that when I 'm sober. DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 28 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE WRITER BIT: BEING OUR SHORT STORY

... THE WRITER BIT. By JAMES M. HENDERSON. * I SUPPOSE I had better write to him, Mr. Wilfred Petter thought. And Clarges will write to him also. He will get the account. The manager of Barrs Bank, Hindchurch Branch, was in his private office, seated at his desk. The local paper was open before him; a certain paragraph had attracted his notice. Prosperity is on the way ...

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 22 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 367 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 55 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: QUIZZERY

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. QUIZZERY. EVERY December and January, as if there were not enough already to test our characters at the Festive Season, there is a virulent epidemic of a disease which has come to be known as Quizzing. Persons of morbid disposition spend the entire year in searching through encyclopaedias for pieces of abstruse information, which they airily produce at Christmas ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1044 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations