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Motoring Commentary: Speeds and Limits; A Crumb for the Retailer

... Minister of Transport, reintroduced the speed limit, making it 30 m.p.h. in built-up areas, those M.P.s who were not afraid to speak up for us motorists against the overwhelming forces of the railway stockholders insisted on inserting a clause into the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 903 | Page: 32 | 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 

Sanity Fare: The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts

... the War Minister's resignation, and mention some thing which 1, seemingly alone among the millions in this country, think to speak in favour of it. The American Hebrew, a journal read by millions of American Jews who regard it as their organ, once published ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING An Enthralling Life-Story. IF an ideal could speak for itself, how it would utter its loathing of the word committee. Usually a com mittee is the beginning of the end of any ideal. The history of most Movements is ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2316 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Priscilla in Paris

... where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor live. Do you know that six out of the eight lads who were so anxious to see his house speak of him still as the Prince of Wales That Paris should do so is not surprising, but these youngsters amazed me. The broad terrace ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1074 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

The British Ambassador to the United States: The Marquess of Lothian at Home in Washington

... between these and Roosevelt's recent address to Congress shows the similarity of outlook of the representative of one English-speak ing democracy and the President of the other. Lord Lothian inherited his titles and estates in 1930 from a cousin, is a Christian ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 489 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SHEPHARD'S PIE AND ITS INGREDIENTS

... beautiful Phyllis Robins sings to us as only, so we are assured, angels of the female sex can. The chorus can well be left to speak for its pretty self ANN COVENTRY AND RICHARD HEARNE Mi IN THEIR BALLET FANTASTIQUE PHYLLIS ROBINS IN A SONG OR TWO k THE BEAUTIFUL ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 263 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire

... knowing what is valuable and what is not, are passing every thing regardless. (I was a Cable Censor once my self, so I don't speak without my book.) Spanner's Horse and many other units of our newly- caparisoned Army will no doubt have been relieved to read ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1696 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

PETROL VAPOUR

... supplied by a pocket battery, in addi tion to which red and green hand lamps are operated to control the crossings. Locals speak well of the idea, now being tried as an experiment at two of the busiest crossings in the city. It is a pity that some more ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1527 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. XX

... sacrifices to come. The worst is yet to be. Are we complacent Do we look hopefully to the immediate or more remote future Speak for yourself. I feel anything but complacent, and as regards the economic future I sometimes marvel at the comparative complacency ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2983 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs