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Collapsed Behind Door

... up and found her husband had collapsed behind the door. She could not open the door, and called to him to move. He did not speak, but moved sufficiently to allow her into the room. She was assisting him towards the bed when he suddenly collapsed and died ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Gourmets

... Gourmets SO far it’s not a bad war for the epicures. Gastronomically speaking, rationing will hardly affect them at all. Only those with a Teutonic palate—there are not many in this country, and probably none between the Maginot Line and the Atlantic ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

I'm Proud I'm a Scot

... like to remember that in Tierra Del Fuego. one of the most southerly, inhabitable parts of the world, the natives who speak English speak it with a Scottish accent. That is because all the white men there hail from Scotland. J AM proud that however humble ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 482 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TAGGART

... either sheep-herding or banditry, or maybe a bit of both. Nearly all the tribes follow the Prophet, and all except one or two speaking Pushtu use the Persian tongue. It is a land of great scenic variety and climatic extremes. There are high mountains, luxuriant ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 418 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOT SPEAKING

... NOT SPEAKING Presideir; Carmona of Portugal arranged his annual reception of the Lisbon Diplomatic Corps by receiving the envoys separately so that representatives of the belligerent Powers should not meet each other.—Associated Press. ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 33 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

On Pantomimes

... years ago. But when modern star goes into pantomime she has to forget her hardly acquired theatrical education. She has to speak even her lines in an archaic manner which, it seems to me, is no older than the ingenuous melodramas and musical shows which ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 584 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dates of

... before holidays are considered by leaders of the employers and operatives—they wdll probably be well received. Mr. Cephas Speak, secretary of the United Textile Factory Workers’ Association, told the Manchester Evening News to-day: “Towns which have holidays ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

O-year-olds MAKE • THE FINEST SOLDIERS

... expected to provide the best material. They gave me an answer, but it had no reference to ages. They said that, generally speaking, it matters less than ever before whether your soldier is 23 or 28, provided that he is a fit man and of good average in ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 750 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

‘Was Told of Murder’

... quarters successfully with a Roman Catholic boarding school, said EARL DE LA WARR (above). President of the Board of Education, speaking at Oxford to-day. The other day the Quaker head master was heard to say that never before had he realised the full implications ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HITLER’S HOME FRONT GERMANS FACE NEW TAXATION BURDEN TAXATION in the most severe form ever applied in any ..

... next to godliness, but by mad desire to convert all cash into goods, whatever their nature. Other reports reaching Amsterdam speak of growing pessimism in Berlin political circles regarding the length of the war and the sacrifices it will demand. > ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 491 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

“The Backbone^

... Germans were a cruel, ruthless, unscrupulous race. The meeting elected a council for three months. ‘None Can Be Neutral When he speaks at the Guildhall, London, next Tuesday, the Prime Minister will probably refer to Mr. Roosevelt’s survey of the war, in which ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I IN NINE MONTHS

... I IN NINE MONTHS IG, ELOCUTION, PUBLIC SPEAKING.RY HOPEWELL. 199, DEANSGATE, NEVIXf* _ .. M/c. AN Taught Quickly by native.-Prl. Roth, •low Moor Rd., W. Didabury. Dids. 305? 3HTON School of MuslcT—VlolliL ' ndolin: pupils visited, prep, for all exatnini' ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 9 | Tags: none