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YOUTH in the SPOTLIGHT: Hollywood's Teen-Age Gang

... and on to the Weidler car with Mama at the wheel there is very little car left in sight. Virginia speaks French, German and Italian as well as she speaks English; and thinks Mickey Rooney is the grandest person in the studios. When she gives up acting ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3657 | Page: 82 | Tags: Photographs 

What is Your Ultimate Objective?

... change, indeed. In the United States, up to Roosevelt, we had a little too much of that Life's a Fight! business. When I speak of England being given motive power in the above para graphs, I mean something specific. In the days of Gladstone all that ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2915 | Page: 80 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE

... helped to give the impression of a poor repertoire. There was, of course, more variety among the sonatas, but, generally speaking, the heavy type was favoured. So long as the repertoire was of this description, its enjoyment was restricted to robust appetites ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1110 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... Within an hour they are dumb, and we find ourselves talking a different language. No wonder, in their desire to get even, so to speak, with those who have endured and won out, they dramatise their very slightest afflictions The moaners have never anything to ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2267 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Animal Welfare in Air Raids

... doctors, when it comes to a question of alleviating suffering, they think more of the patients than of their pockets. Generally speaking, I am certain that most people will do tlteir best to look after the animals entrusted to their charge in an air raid, but ...

Brooklands' Father Time

... , unforgettable to those who have followed the sport with any keenness. My memory does not go back very far, and I cannot speak of the earlier days. Looking back, I think of Colonel Lindsay Lloyd (when he was in charge at Brooklands), of Tim Birkin, the ...

FINLAND--LAND OF FAIRY TALES AND GRIM REALITY: Where Men and Women Are Trained to Concert Pitch to Serve the ..

... Russian or Swedish spoken, although Swedish is the second official language of Finland. Finnish only is spoken by the seldom-speaking peasants busy around their wooden huts. Roads are few. When winter comes the jingling sleighs rush over the frozen ground ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2005 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT DOES 1940 HOLD IN STORE FOR US?

... domination are over. That each nation must live within itself as it wishes to live, but that over and above all the man who speaks for the sincerity of a nation must be a man whose word can be trusted by the other nations. As I write, our sympathies go ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2012 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No.XVIII

... PLEA.- The Finns, said Lord Chatfield recently in a very fine, digni fied broadcast, need no propaganda. Their actions speak for them without need of words. And do not ours Is it too much to hope that in 1940 some of our ministers will readjust their ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2869 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

ALL ABOUT THE SUB MARINE: Questions Every is Asking--and the Answers: 1. What is a Submarine and what Purposes ..

... short distance above the surface of the water. 7. When does a Submarine Travel on the Surface and ivhen Submerged Broadly speaking, it may be said that a submarine travels on the surface except when it is essential that her presence should not be known ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2240 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: A Breath of Country Air

... announcers Yevonde WITH SILENT FRIENDS-- continued the reality of what existence should be composed of, if we are, so to speak, still to keep in touch with the kind of life God must surely have intended us to lead, if He intended us, by living, to know ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2285 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

People

... just before and the second contingent just after Christmas. Lady Bessborough, herself is French, which pleases the French-speaking Canadians Hostess to the Oakley recently was Lady Melchett when a meet was held at Colworth House her home in Bed fordshire ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 499 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs