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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

... Brother, and the language of the people is Newspeak. There are some telling slogans to be seen War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, are speci mens, and love is known as sexcrime, It is all nightmarish but hideously logical. Let ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SIXTEEN SELF SKETCHES

... Constable 7s. 6d.) THE historical analogy for Mr. Shaw is with Moses. As the great Judaic liberator brought his people out of slavery, Mr. Shaw has delivered us from the yoke of rusty conventions and shibboleths. But his work has always given me the keenest ...

Published: Wednesday 16 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 573 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A JOURNEY THROUGH OPPRESSED EUROPE: A Brilliant Description of a Woman's Wartime Odyssey; Virginia in the Days ..

... Tom's Cabin theme, SAP- PHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL (Cassell. 7s. 6d.), which takes us back to Virginia in the last years of slavery. When Sapphira Dod- deridge married Henry Colbert it was plain that she was marrying be neath her. Included in her dowry were ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1390 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Books

... centuries, could be shattered to pieces by the perverted ingenuity of a later age civilizations could rock, peoples go into slavery, political systems collapse, but still there was no basic change. He recalls the story of his father, who returned from the ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1515 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

at the Theatre

... swaying and hissing and glittering, with one hand on hip, the other at the nape of her neck, she sells weeping girls into slavery, tells bowler- hatted toughs of the nineties where they get off or come up, and in the intervals of ogling a Salvation Army ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 737 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

A WEEK OF UNUSUAL BOOKS: Two Single-handed Voyages Across the Atlantic; An English Governess in Siam; The ..

... exerted an influence on that absolute monarch, King Mongkut, and on his young son which was to result later in the abolition of slavery in their countrv. ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM (Harrap. 12s. 6d.) reads like fiction, but it is based throughout on facts collected ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1753 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Foolish Gentleman (Duchess)

... a proposal of marriage made to Tilly Cuff, the family governess who, thus deprived of a husband, was condemned to genteel slavery as an underpaid domestic companion. What reparation is possible? Nothing will satisfy the now charmingly vague old dear but ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 805 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

The Theatre: Ducks and Drakes (Apollo)

... start a writer can possibly have, I would never dream of writing about anything else. On a page of pictures of School for Slavery in last week's issue, we stated that its author, Lajos Biro, was a Polish film director. Mr. Biro is, in fact, of Hungarian ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 795 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

THE POE CENTENARY: The Anthology of a Tragic Genius

... from West Point, he was left to his own resources, and the rest of his life is one long story of unrelieved poverty and of slavery to drink and opium. Dominating Poe's tragic domestic life is the terrible figure of Maria Clemm, who, according to Mr. Slater ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 887 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MYSELF AT THE PICTURES: A Great Russian Film

... village. One saw cahner scenes too, such as the adoption of a tl ree- year-old little girl, father killed and mother taken into slavery. One saw dawn rise >ver Leningrad and dusk fall on that city at clo c of day. I have said above that this film is dignified ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

Books

... form you can see the two countries, Germany and Britain, compared in war and peace, in religion and politics, in freedom and slavery. At times naive, at times inaccurate (though rarely), it gives, through American eyes, a picture that is never dull. Books ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1233 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review