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... been priced at £rz are an excellent investment, and the shoes here are heavily reduced, and also, of the highest quality. Speaking of shoes, Baber (Regent Street), who is so clever at fitting difficult feet, is having his annual Sale from January r st ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1608 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

GOLF BY BERNARD DARWIN

... will arouse the just contempt of anybody who does like system . My correspondent shares, I think, my general views, for he speaks with distaste of the modern way in which we all know exactly where the strokes come. I join issue with him, incidentally ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

FINLAND--LAND OF FAIRY TALES AND GRIM REALITY: Where Men and Women Are Trained to Concert Pitch to Serve the ..

... Russian or Swedish spoken, although Swedish is the second official language of Finland. Finnish only is spoken by the seldom-speaking peasants busy around their wooden huts. Roads are few. When winter comes the jingling sleighs rush over the frozen ground ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2005 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

cou TRY LIFE

... which will be regarded in a friendly way by all concerned. Already the proposal has met with ready support. Eustace Percy, speaking as an educationist, prefers the idea of student courses at universities, and undoubtedly these would be the most appropriate ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2092 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

A SELECTION FOR THE LIBRARY LIST

... CIRCLE IN THE WATER, by Marjorie Bowen (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.); D EATH AT THE BAR, by . Ngaio Marsh (Collins, Ss. 3d.). Verse: SPEAK TO THE EARTH, by Andrew Young (Cape, ss.). FROM PACES zrs.); Press, mdlan, D ewes (Rich and Cowan, ISS.). M eynell (Chapman ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Jan . uth, Hl-1-0. Croome was not Brown's only work for Lord Co\·entry, for in 1763 he built Spring Hill,

... Broadway. Spring Hill, could be you the testimony to the letter which Lord ; Drawings undertakings Spring Hill Humphry held him speak which, you Burghley 1763, finished, tecture, convenience. than likely through Lord inspiration. Court, Miller large there he ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1412 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

£5OO FOR THIS

... to be in charge of a foreign news department. For three months he received salary of about £5OO year. He was unable to speak the of the eountry in question, and relief' entirely on two yoynger Dons of university, who gave their services voluntarily ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 101 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Stray Shots Happy Evacuees

... soon rows and clue- volunteer whether p ro t ec t e d by in the announcement that a meeting m Sawel, from India, who was soon speak_hadow ters of houses, nestling almost in the or not. - ''''' the newly-formed Croydon sad District mg about all the lovely ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4427 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

... Rauschning, as in the earlier book in which h e d iscussed the policy and theory, claims to speak with the authority H e bases of Nazi policy and theory, claims to speak with the authority of one who has been an intimate among the Nazi leaders. H e pushes the ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2468 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

A FISHERMAN'S HOME

... Overton and then on below the mill to L averstock. The very nam.es of the places-on the banks of this loveliest of chalk streams-speak of peace, of spring evenings when the may-fl Just here at Southington, river and road run close beneath a high chalk bluff ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1079 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... eight years ago . of the odd One of the odd things about parrots is their propensity for egg-laying without warning, so to speak, when at an advanced age. I ha,·e come across several cases involving birds nearer thirty than twenty, while in a Sunday paper ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1874 | Page: 39 | Tags: none