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A Gift to the Nation

... and the ravages the sea had wrought while the St. Nicholas lay on her bilge on the reef. He'd been able to kick her from Caribbean port to port as she was. But to make the 3,503 miles from Barbados to Plymouth Mr. Tredeen shrugged his singlet-clad shoulders ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4491 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Round the Restaurant: The Tatler and Bystander Guide to Lunching, Dining and Dancing in Wartime London; The May ..

... broadcasting, as they sometimes do from the restaurant, to their native West Indies, so you can be sure that the haunting Caribbean music you listen and dance to is the real thing. Maison Prunier /Calling all oyster-lovers. You haven't much ^time left. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1770 | Page: 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

Sleuth of the Sea: Even the Most Amateur Detective can Justify himself by Solving the Mystery

... save you from the New Orleans-S.A. run. H'm, said Mr. Gage. Ah h'm! All things end, even a winter run north from the Caribbean. The time came when the Doris M. MacLeod slid into her Brooklyn pier. On the other side of the pier lay Mr. Gage's old Henrietta ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5296 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... treacly chunks with a knife. Deep ruby-black in colour, it turned out to be, containing the essence of all the sunshine of the Caribbean, the deepest mellow notes of a Cremona bass-viol, the lovely golden glow of Giorgi- one's varnish, and the passionate yet ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1798 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Son of France

... had the scars of it on his body- and the iron of it in his heart. When he first escaped, Fran5ois had headed up across the Caribbean to join the de Gaullists and fight the Boche. But he soon found that a Devil's Islander wasn't wanted. In fact, Franois found ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3839 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

Old Tales Re-told

... never came into his possession.) His own ships were undamaged, so he proceeded to Honduras, Nicaragua, and then across the Caribbean to J amaica, passing from misadventure to misadventure, inadequately equipped and often nearly starving. At last he got back ...

Published: Sunday 01 November 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3445 | Page: 55 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Time For Tact

... Panama/' laughed Williams. In a matter of seconds Albrook Field was sliding dizzily away and they were flying low over the Caribbean. We're looking for a Fritz agent, Jim, shouted the pilot. If you see a boat that looks suspi&iohs we'll go down and challenge ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3346 | Page: 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE STRATEGIC POSITION OF THE AZORES: A New Diagram-Drawing

... most dangerous areas of the Atlantic the 2, 000, (XX) square miles of sea lying midway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean in the west, and North-West Africa and Spain in the east which is described in the above drawing as the Triangle of the ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

First-Footing Into Fear

... Buccaneer's Castle By Alan Hyder IT'S the bottom of the sea, Alison thought. We've plunged right down the mountain into the Caribbean. For the light outside the car was a subdued aquamarine and shimmered like water, distorting, ribboning, confusing vision ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3851 | Page: 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

EDEN--WITHOUT THE ATOM

... friends otherwise there is small reason why folk of venturesome 'temperament shouldn't make a go of a new life in the Caribbean, or in Melanesia, for that matter. Provided a minimum of white life doesn't diminish within one's radius, satisfying a natural ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1910 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations