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John Bull's Sea War: It is waged to keep open Britain's sea communications and close the enemy's

... John Bull's Sea War It is waged to keep open Britain's sea communications and close the enemy's By C. Patrick Thompson SCUDDING clouds over the grey channel made the observation bal loon look as if it were darting and diving, like a silver trout after flies. Behind sandbagged posts, steel-helmeted French artillerymen were alert at action stations. More units of the British Expeditionary Force ...

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

... Youth in the Spotlight Hollywood's T een-Age Gang By Margaret Chute YOUTH stands alert in the spotlight to-day. Youth-- in the air, behind the camouflaged guns, in the trenches, on and under the sea, protecting us. Youth-- on the film screens of the war-saddened world, entertaining us, helping us to forget. A letter from a friend in Hollywood had a sentence that gripped my attention. There is ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3657 | Page: Page 18, 19, 80, 81, 82 | Tags: Photographs 

Substitute for Sunshine

... 4i ji January is the danger period. Vitality has just been drained to a low ebb by the darkest days of December, and January follows with days that are generally more intensely cold and just as dreary. February brings little relief-- it is a dead month anyway-- so that at the moment when our bodies can offer least resistance, they are called on to bear the longest strain. Even so, if January ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1124 | Page: Page 46, 47, 73 | Tags: Photographs 

WARMING PLAN

... |4 I 'ii i\ 1151 nrs We can dispense with a discussion about the need for economy because it is only too painfully obvious that we have all now got to practise it. So accepting facts as they are, the next step is to see how much excitement can be got out of something that isn't supposed to be exciting at all. At least there is interest and satisfaction in doing a job well if it's only doing a ...

Learn From Animals

... -.,1 Fr111 Leati1 ss^^rr-^s t animals, dof?ve nevet been fii We -ere tal fcM oi the*. X 1 supp°se y0Utand il myse „resence hl Sor her. J£ °5rTw sWSI 0u countetl companies0 sotnething Je^e loss not bave un^erstandm| ^oS>^S' only m that opmrate .^particular much to learn. telerred to l {erior origm. a 1 e which so right to cteatures W°What ^can we learn o -e ...

'SANATOGEN'

... SANATOGEN SANATOGEN These fortunate dwellers in the dawn of history had never heard of the war of nerves Our nerves need special nourishment to j stand this special strain. The article below shows how an eight weeks' course of Sanatogen Nerve- Tonic Food will help you win this unequal struggle. How to win 'war of nerves' In the present state of medical knowledge, there are many things we do ...

TANGEE

... Tangee lANGEE SIXTEEN j FASHIONABLE FROCKS 1 A DAY. Jrid oiih/ ONE k I J ml LIPSTICK!# Famous Fashion Houses employ mannequins of contrasting types. Lip stick's colour- change gives the correct shade for each girl s lips, and, by toning with the clothes she's J showing, adds to the J glamour of every I gown T| EA UTIFUL I II London manne- I quin, Jacqueline I I Craven, parades the latest and ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 275 | Page: Page 77 | Tags: Photographs 

Leichner

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Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 220 | Page: Page 79 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH BEAUTIFYING PRODUCTS LIMITED

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Anne French

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Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: Page 83 | Tags: Photographs 

The SPHERE

... ^BBB m r A Subscription to It is a Oift that will re-express vour kindly thought Tor many months is presenting week by week a com- 5 T i plete survey of the W ar, on all the fronts. I he artists alter some small token might be lorgotten. Whether you are gilt-giving inc[ude sucp lveU-known names as F. Matania, R.l. at birthday anniversary time or all the year round, solve the problem (whose ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 257 | Page: Page 92 | Tags: Photographs 

Larola

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Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 120 | Page: Page 65 | Tags: Photographs