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... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2688 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Rapier on Racing: The Red Cross 'Chase--Plans for the 1940 Derby--Season to open at Hurst Park--Grand National ..

... up 11 lb. but what a race he ran last time, until he made that fatal mistake at Bechers. True, he has shown no form worth speaking of this season but, then, he has only had a couple of races. There are two other well-treated horses, in my view Dominick's ...

A WAR NEWSLETTER--NO. XXII

... sense of the League had sur vived its courageous establishment. A Scandinavian League, a Balkan League, a League of English-speaking peoples any one of these could have averted one or more of the component tragedies in the supreme tragedy, and even one brave ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2812 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A MARRIAGE OF INCLINATION AND REASON: M. Raoul Dautry and Mr. Leslie Burgin Harness Two Great Empires for the ..

... Mail organ isation, or with the National Economic Council, he has been equally popular with his staff and the workmen. He speaks no English but French is a second native tongue to Mr. Burgin, so that presents no difficulties. They are more like members ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1498 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

Charlie's My Brother: Bystander Short Story

... gone. In fact, she was already turning away. So the words just slipped out of him he felt guilty as soon as he heard himself speaking, but he had to make himself seem important to her. I guess your father probably remembers Charlie Bruneteau, he said. You ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2901 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... the majority, a wider mental horizon for all those who care to scan, ninety per cent, of human beings have, psychologically speaking, never outlived child hood. Or, as I have so often put it myself in these pages, they grow older without ever growing up ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2228 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

The American Embassy in London: The Bystander visits

... of American shipping during and after the war, as well as giving the President information too confidential for cables, speaking publicly in favour of a third term of office for Mr. Roosevelt, and of the U.S. keeping out of war. After ten strenuous days ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1238 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Indoor Bowling

... B. 0. Schonegavel, is an ex-Mayor of King William' sTown, South Africa. A great orator, as well as a bowls enthusiast, he speaks English with a Scottish accent. E. J. Linney is a well-known writer on the game, and has won countless medals and competitions ...

Rapier on Racing

... this pair should have chances in an average Lincolnshire and both, in this one, are reasonably weighted. I am inclined to speak well, too, of Lord Glanely's Southport, who won two races at the beginning of last season he may not be a genuine miler, but ...

A WAR NEWS LETTER--NO. XXIII

... that black is black and white is white and that Christianity and morality do not admit a neutral tint, to hear the world speaking of a great democracy slithering between the poles of fear and moral rectitude in all their international relations. It some ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2847 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

ABOARD S.S. MAGINOT

... son of the Maginot Line to a Battleship. The Famous Subterranean Fortifications described by HARRY J. GREENWALL AN English-speaking French soldier writing me from somewhere out here in France begs me and brother knights of the adjectives, as he calls ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1578 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WEATHER'S PART IN MODERN WARFARE: The Recent Climatic Conditions Which Have So Disheartened the Russians ..

... thinking out the require- ments for the new world after the war, but we have a long way to go before we are certain that whoever speaks for future Germany can be trusted to see that such brutality can never happen again. M. Daladier is quite clear on this point ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2068 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs