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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 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... get a souvenir on the top of his noggin in the shape of a bomb from his Soviet pals, and thus get two exit permits, so to speak, within a few days of each other. President Roosevelt has stated that he is tired of attempts to smoke him out, and that he ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2006 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 504 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

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

... cleverly convicted the Germans out of their own mouths, and an excel lent feature of our German broadcasts is the Kolner who speaks in dialect but we are a long wav behind on balance in the radio war. The broadcasts to Austrians are especially poor in psychology ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1235 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Dear, Delightful Elizabeth

... used to be. The fifties, if you struggle against them, are an undignified contest. But at sixty you can, metaphorically speaking, sit back, put your feet on the mantelpiece, and say to yourself Well, that 's that And most of it really wasn't worth all ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2263 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GUNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY A New Series of Pictures Showing their Distinctive Characteristic--The Huge ..

... notions of big artillery. It is true that our Army has entered this war with far better and more up-to-date guns. comparatively speaking, than the first B.E.F. possessed in 1914. At that time our enemies were many years, almost a generation, ahead of us. Our ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1144 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bystander Bookshelf: History by the Ton

... from his wife and to some extent from his children. By the time the grandchildren arrive, the modern American, politically speaking, is bom. Miss Page is conscientious about her history, but she has an in- Idustrious and sentimental mind of a not very ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1392 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Racing Ragout

... round the room Quinny says so and so (mentioning the horse's name) had his back teeth pulled out. Owner and trainer didn't speak to me for many a long day. Indiscretion No. 2 happened only a few weeks ago at a luncheon party, when the lady on my left (a ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1572 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

PETROL VAPOUR

... who afterwards turned out to be a policeman, rode away, and told the Bench she did so because she 'd been warned never to speak to strangers in the dark. A Paramount Invention. Which inven tion made in recent years has had the great est effect on our ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1033 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

PRISCILLA IN PARIS

... were reported present, but they must have been in boxes under my side of la corbeille. It is by this charming name that Paris speaks of the dress circle and, personally, I prefer the front row of the corbeille to any other place in the theatre. I saw and ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... scene the scene when he meets the antagonism of the two daughters of his first marriage after they were grown-up is, so to speak, apart from a long string of personal events. How ever, all this is by the way. What is important is that it is an interesting ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2301 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs