... 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 ...

... year. Instead, they must chat with old people in their localities, visit the villages and islands of the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking districts) and jot down the poem1, legends, and traditional prayers which the centenarians ancl near-centenarians rattle ...

... Moya Nugent; at the back, Lois Davis, Babbie McManus Betty Greaves, Hilde Palmer, Decima Knight, Lois Green Lullaby Balloon speaks for itself; Bobby Howes, R.A.F., and Fred Emney, balloon ...

... of a floor show crooner with a very hula shape, watched closely by a caf6 society buck who comments, For one who doesn't speak the language she gets her message over remarkably well. It is good to hear that not only New York but Budapest remains co ...

... rather a formless kind of book. Perhaps, deliberately, it was meant to be formless. Briefly, it is the ebb and flow, so to speak, of a thoughtful, intelligently curious mind as it ponders over this and that during that gained hour in life which lies towards ...

... so that trainers with horses running for early races will not have very long in which to prepare their charges. Roughly speaking, it will not matter very much. The early two-year-olds will no doubt be prepared much as usual, and so will the majority ...

... coined the expression Home Front, compelled its volunteers to A.R.P. services, and held many of them there. It never ceased to speak of a nation at war, and did not differentiate at first between the dangers and discomforts of those engaged in A.R P. in ...

... aspiration. The Dutch are a severely practical people-- not easily roused. In Belgium it is different. In Belgium the heart speaks quickly, and the heart is with us. I spent a night as the guest of a Belgian industrial ist in one of those charming modern ...

... hear them. Both speeches were master pieces of our great English language, and both speeches inspired us. Lord Halifax, speaking amongst his York shire comrades, made the whole history of the events which led up to the war so clear that even the last ...

... dislike him there are some, but few say that he speaks the language of an ancien diplomate retraiti, which is the opposite of the language they speak themselves but that is not to his discredit, for who would speak better French than an Ambassador of lifelong ...

... ler's book, The Everlasting Hills (Blackwood; 15s.), should be among the more recent book- of-books. For others who, so to speak, only love mountains from the valleys, the charm of it lies in the fact that the book is mostly written from the point of view ...

... seeing he meant it for our good. But of course you can't stop men speaking their minds, and many of us countrymen have minds of a forthright and picturesque nature. So when we speak our minds the atmosphere is apt to become full of warmth and colour ...