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... that they pronounce their words badly ? Very often you may be right—but no one can afford to criticise until her own way of speaking is perfect. Listen to yourself very carefully and see whether you can detect any speech faults. e Here it is—the frock that ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 610 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2915 | Page: 80 | Tags: Photographs 

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 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8354 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

YOUTH in the SPOTLIGHT: Hollywood's Teen-Age Gang

... and on to the Weidler car with Mama at the wheel there is very little car left in sight. Virginia speaks French, German and Italian as well as she speaks English; and thinks Mickey Rooney is the grandest person in the studios. When she gives up acting ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3657 | Page: 82 | Tags: Photographs 

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 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5629 | Page: 76 | Tags: Illustrations 

New Books for the New Year

... subtle a murderer as ever murdered and who leads her first of all to an exhibition of modern art and then, true to form (so to speak 1) to a nudist camp in the Chilterns. Needless to add, Mrs. Bradley proves that not only intuition, but also that infinite ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2928 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

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 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7061 | Page: 87 | Tags: Illustrations 

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 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7590 | Page: 79 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR FIRST AIR ACE PROMOTED

... in a series of exploits which thrilled the world, are also given in the special supplement of the London Gazette, which speaks of the courageous and skilful attack. Bestowal of awards upon a number of officers and other ranks of H.M.S. Jersey recalls ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 477 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

AILING FOR SOME

... understanding talks with your loved one. Use it to straighten out problems and doubts, and don't be afraid to confide or speak frankly. There's a real break today for lonely people born on the 3rd, 12th, 21st and 30th—in fact, a chance to make a ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1092 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The New Army

... and off parade. For the most part these younz men, whether in the ranks or already commissioned, think the same thoughts ann speak the same kind of language. They have plenty of political intelligence, though they talk very little politics. They have no ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 6 | Tags: none