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COTLAND'S BIG FOUR IN THE ROMANTIC NOVEL

... conversation can be extracted from Scott, Dumas, Balzac. Victor Hugo. Fenimore Cooper, Stevenson, Neil Munro, Stanley Weyman, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, and A. E. W. Mason. Probably that is why they are called (again with a touch of acidity) men's authors ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

An Appreciation by A. K

... conversation can be extracted from Scott. Dumas, Balzac. Victor Hugo, Fenimore Cooper, Stevenson, Neil Munro, Stanley Weyman, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, and A. E. W. Mason. Probably that is why they are called (again with touch of acidity) “men's authors,” as ...

Published: Thursday 29 February 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 535 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MEMORIES OF THE RED REVOLUTION

... Romanoff, she thinks she carries some of the Romanoff bad luck. Among a crop of stories she has to tell is one concerning Joseph Conrad, whom she sat next to at a dinner in London. There was a tvpical Russian scene. Upon my informing him that I was Russian ...

Published: Tuesday 12 March 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FROM YOUR GROCER OR STORE ANSWERS

... fast as the witness. In other words, thirty-five miles an hour, SPOT THESE MISTAKES. (1) Richard Tauber is a tenor. (2) Joseph Conrad was of Polish parentage. (3) Ben Jonson is the correct spelling. (4) There are no theatres, cinemas or music halls within ...

SPOT THESE MISTAKES

... such a remarkable success in ‘The Land of Smiles'? Then, of course, we lack good story-writers and dramatists. If only Joseph Conrad were alive to-day ! True, he was a Frenchman, but he proved one of the most popular novelists in thinl country.” “I quite ...

ART AND THE NAVY - —?——Admiral Ramsey Opens -Scottish Academv NAVY'S WORK IN WAR Pictures on Page 12 , THE DUKE ..

... deeds Of the men of the sea forces , the Royal Navy , the Merchant Navy , and the fishing fleets , he recalled the tribute Joseph Conrad paid to the men who had been in sail : — The men are gone , those men who knc . v how to exist beyond the pale of life ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1542 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORDS BY DR JOHN HELMAN

... ; and a delightful article by Isabel Cameron, Fashion Notes in Scottish Ballads and Songs: R. L. ,Megroz writes on Joseph Conrad and Poland : Gurney Slade continues his Chronicles of Captain Quid, and Neil M. Gunn his Islandi and Seas series ...

Published: Tuesday 30 April 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 796 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PROVOST’S NOBLE APPEAL

... “Adam’s apple”? 2. Who was Stalky? 3. Up to what age may a dog kept without a licence? 4. What was the nationality of Joseph Conrad, the famous novelist? 5. Up till last century peewits’ eggs were destroyed in South-West Scotland. Why? 6. What is meant ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1940
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 2346 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ?

... “Adam’s anple”? 2. Who was Stalky? 3. Up to what age may a dog be kept without a licence? 4. What was the nationality of Joseph Conrad, the famous novelist? 5. Up till last century peewits’ eggs were destroyed in South-West Scotland. Why? 6. What meant by ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1940
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 171 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ALLAN - AUGUST 24 9 if u a)' t The ii-own 6 t d tll( )ecUv‘ (tiling tin” p final

... get the name “Adam's anple”? Who was Stalky? Up what age may a dog be kept without a licence? What was the nationality Joseph Conrad the famous novelist? Up till last century peewits’ eggs were destroyed in South-West Scotland Why? What is meant ‘by a ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Bridge of Allan Gazette
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5189 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE ADVERTISER - 24 WAR CRITICISMS NEED FOR VICTORY ROTARIANS HEAR PROFESSOR Several interesting criticisms of ..

... answers I How did projection in of the name “Adam’s aople”? was Stalky? Up to what may dog be without licence? was the of Joseph Conrad famous till last oentury peewits’ eggs South-West “deoch approved school but told him that he wanted interest gardening ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Callander Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4336 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... Will Chime); News. Compton in Startime. 10. 0—8.8.C. Scottish Orchestra. 10.45—Epilogue. 10.55 — The Shadow Line, by Joseph Conrad. 11.40—Light Music by the Rendezvous Players. 12. o—l2.2o—Time Signal; News. FOR THE FORCES. 6.30— Reveille; Records. 7 ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 838 | Page: 4 | Tags: none