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The Island Trader

... bulkhead, holding the revolver to cover the square of sky in the open hatch. He held up one finger for silence before Webb could speak and motioned the boy to a seat on one of the chests. Mandell's legs and white shoes appeared at the top of the companion ladder ...

Passion and the Pilot: Romance and Tragedy interwoven in a plot to sink a ship on the Barrier Reef

... gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Naughty7. I heard vou, Marya yvas saying. He didn't knoyy7 he had been speak ing aloud. That yvas the fault of the champagne. And of the royv they yvere beginning to make; y7ou couldn't hear y7ourself ...

Death May Have a Silver Lining: Doomed, he sought his Fate, and found a Love that brought him Life

... gossip and politics among themselves. So they were forever keeping an eye peeled for fresh, new diversions. And an English-speaking repertory com pany arrived in town What could be a quicker, pleasanter pick-me-up? This was the second week now of the engagement ...

What is Your Ultimate Objective?

... change, indeed. In the United States, up to Roosevelt, we had a little too much of that Life's a Fight! business. When I speak of England being given motive power in the above para graphs, I mean something specific. In the days of Gladstone all that ...

Peace From Heaven

... Get headquarters! I will speak myself. He picked up his receiver. D.P. His voice was swallowed by another vast detonation, all but coincident with the huge flash that briefly lit the room. Nearer, that one. He was speaking to D.P. Headquarters. Nonsense ...

SALUTATIONS FROM THE FUTURE: BENG OUR SHORT STORY

... before everything became blank. She awoke in hospital, with Peregrine Palmer's face beaming lovingly above her. Too ill to speak, she gazed at him with such a look of fear and horror on her face that even he felt constrained to clear his throat twice before ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1468 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

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 

MAKING THE MOST OF WARTIME FOOD

... of the south-western vil lages of France, which are optimistic in nature, conservative in spirit qualities which are, so to speak, helped, enhanced, by the climate. For two days there. may be a southerly gale and torrents of rain then, the third day, the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1072 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: HAPPY NEW YEAR

... of happiness. There must be something more to make existence really sweet on the tongue a certain tone of mind (as doctors speak of the tone of the body). That very discursive lady, Mrs. Knox, in Fanny's First Play, was never tired of brightening up the ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1224 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward overseas

... now come to the conclusion that I am one of those who ought to stay at home. For one thing, although every body at a party speaks much more loudly than they do at other times, I never can hear what is being said to me. This is partlv because I am often ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 997 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE WRITER BIT: BEING OUR SHORT STORY

... please. Oh, Lord Sir Cheviot Portsmouth That 's torn it Farnworth thought. There was no step he could take, however, save to speak to Wilfred Petter, which afforded him the doubtful privilege of showing Sir Cheviot Portsmouth into the manager's room. He ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1479 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: QUIZZERY

... which Prime Minister said, I always wear flannel next to the skin, is ex tremely painful to see. I admit, how ever, that I speak with some pre- judice. The humiliating truth is that these quizzes, and es pecially the ingen uity of The Times in q u i si ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1044 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations