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BUBBLE and SQUEAK

... heckler and asked Are you the man from Tass Insisting that he had no connection with the Soviet news agency, the man said I speak for the Lublin Government. Oh, I see, the delegate dismissed him, Demi-Tass. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 23 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BUBBLE and SQUEAK

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK YOUR husband says that when he is angry he always counts up to ten before he speaks, remarked one woman to another. 44 Yes, sighed the other, 44 1 do wish he '(1 stop it. Ever since this Government came in our home seems nothing but ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 23 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

FIGHTER PILOTS SHOULDN'T DREAM: BEING OUR SHORT STORY

... brought down his twenty-fourth Polish machine^to-day. You cannot oppose our speed and armament. To-morrow Dr. Wimmer will speak to you himself. End the war. This is Danzig calling Polish Aviation. The two airmen turned in. It was another miracle night ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1522 | Page: 8 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BUBBLE and SQUEAK

... to meet him at the railway station. On his way he realised that he knew no French and that possibly the musician could not speak English. When the Frenchman stepped from the train, the professor could only recall one French phrase and so, as he shook hands ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 23 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A SAD STORY

... bridled at once. It seems the fashion among professional men nowadays to turn the truth upside down. You 're speaking of women in general I am speaking of my wife. Whose reactions you might be expected to gauge pretty accurately. Whose reactions I can gauge ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1609 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Bubble and Squeak: Stories from Everywhere

... express regret over his actions at the time? asked the judge. No, your lordship, the ambulance took him away before he could speak to me. Jock wasn't really mean he just hated to spend good money. One day he woke up with a bad throat. During the day it ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

Bubble and Squeak: Stories From Everywhere

... And let me tell you, said Mrs. Higgins, that I've always tried to be respectable. Hindeed! retorted Mrs. Harris. Well, speaking for meself, I don't 'ave to try. The Londoner was boasting to a Scot that it was impossible to do him, even if he did live ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: 36 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BED, BATH 'AND BREAKFAST

... right. If I 've for gotten anything She lingered a little. But the tall girl just stood by the window, looking out without speaking, and the little one only smiled, so Mrs. Remy said good night and left them. She knew what it was to be tired, too. Mr. Remy ...

Published: Wednesday 30 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1595 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BELINDA IN ARCADY

... knocked and thrice they rang, and the keeper of the gate, opening a little panel where no panel seemed to be, said gruffly Speak the magic words, O Strangers, ere I fling the portals wide I am a friend of Mrs. Bradbury replied the widow and the gates flew ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1732 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

. . . AS GOOD AS A FEAST

... food. The lectures are always sold out, well in advance, at a high charge. Like all great artists, M. Nicholas refuses to speak to a definite schedule. He prefers to improvise, as the mood dictates. Once, his subject might be The Enigma of the Omelette ...

Published: Wednesday 19 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1579 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

INTENTIONS MOST HONOURABLE

... corsage, where the white flower confirmed that she was the girl he was waiting for. Then he looked again at her face. Generally speaking, Adrian was a man whose facial expression was kept admirably under control. If he could have seen the frozen horror with ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1610 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

GLASS CUTS DIAMOND

... a small edition, too. It deserves better than that, you know. Richard's sallow face flushed with pleasure. He started to speak, but Henry's bull voice broke in. Cost me a packet to get it published, he said. Richard had some crazy idea that he could ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1512 | Page: 26 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative