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SPEECHES RATIONED TOO

... Fathers talk too much, their are to be rationed. Hitherto, the Council has started at 11 a.m. and members have often gone on speaking until 8 p.m. Now it will open at 2.30, with a 6 p.m curfew ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 44 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WAR PART DUE TO PACIFISM

... hient and reduced our authority abroad, declared Lord Londonderry last night. Lord Londonderry, a former Air Minister, was speaking at New- townards, Northeria Hitler, he said, is not a staies- man in any sense of the word. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 61 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

five languages

... with a dictionary, he could translate letters Portuguese for a firm for which he once worked. He was a little frightened speaking German, until one day at Labour meeting in Islington he met some Sudeten refugees from Czecho-Slovakia, talked to them, and ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 88 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... one. For not only does Mr. Macdonell insult the female sex, as typified by his correspon dent, all through the body, so to speak, of the letter, but he implants a particularly venomous sting in its tail. The reader comes to look forward to these vitriolic ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2172 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

CITY NOTES: FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE

... tfie currency. There 's no necessity for them to do so, agreed The Merchant, when everything is inflating itself, so to speak. Seems to me that there 's a balloon barrage in practically all trades. Prices go a little higher and a little higher every ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 957 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

THE BRISTLEWOODS SEE IT THROUGH

... BRISTLEWOODS SEE IT THROUGH. MR. bristlewood I know who that dog reminds me oj MRS. BRISTLEWOOD If you say Goebbels I '11 never speak to you again DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 32 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... printed in Fox's most handsome sepia tone. The film is really an affair of two parallel love-stories. In each pair, roughly speaking, one partner is good and simple-hearted, the other bad but reformable. The first pair consists of the Hon. Tom Ransome (George ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1295 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

Of Devon Speak Out

... Of Devon Speak Out BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SOMEWHERE IN DEVON, Tuesday. 'jpHE local young men of this town of evacuee spinsters, incensed at having been dubbed unroinantic and dumb, spoke out to-day. They told me exactly what they think of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ENGLISH NAMES

... year apart, but gave them the same birthday. August 1. Peggy and Molly were taught by Mr. and Mrs. Mayers to read, write and speak English. They were taught English sums. Later they went to school. They forgot the horrors they had seen in Bilbao. They even ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STLES

... have no more with both sexes. Silence ! Mr. GERALD KERSH will- And what eyes ! To the question: Are your best . to say. now. speak for the Defence. L.L.B. BLACK BEARD: , . And ' friends of your own or the opposite THE JUDGE: Ladies and Gentle- sex ? Jeannette ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3229 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SELF-DEFENCE

... SELF-DEFENCE put his hand through the hole, unlocked the door and walked in, shouting: Olive, come here. I want to speak to you. A man's voice replied, Stand back, or I'll fire. Shots were fired. He was wounded in the leg. He denied that his daughter ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 5 | Tags: none