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MAKING THE MOST OF WARTIME FOOD

... . By X. MARCEL BOULESTIN. IT is the thought that, whatever happens, life goes on, and will go on somehow, which helps us through days which often seem endless. In humble little in cidents we find a moral lesson and an encouragement. This is particularly true of the south-western vil lages of France, which are optimistic in nature, conservative in spirit qualities which are, so to speak, helped ...

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

THE BRISTLEWOODS SEE IT THROUGH

... . MRS. BRISTLEWOOD Who 's had my butter ration MR. BRISTLEWOOD Come, come, my dear, who do you suspect DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 27 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

PEACEFUL ENGLISH INTERIOR

... . This peaceful English conversation piece breathes the spirit of all that we are fighting to preserve. It was taken in the drawing-room of Weston Hall Tout ester, IS or than ts, the country home of MR. and MRS. SACHEVERELL SITWELL, who are seated on the right. LADY BRIDGET PARSONS is just visible on the sofa, and the DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER is busy with her petit-point in a chair by the fire. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: THE EVIL MACHINATIONS OF THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY

... THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: THE evil machinations of the first LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY. TO CHEER YOU UP SECTION. As everyone knows, the Nazis have credited the First Lord of the Admiralty with many surprising exploits, and seek to prove by far-fetched propaganda that he has slandered them and vilified them in the eyes of all the world Mr. Heath Robinson, in his inimitable series of Mr. Winston ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Please forward overseas

... rmM^ piwxrnd ovtum By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT--I do hope you enjoyed your leave as much as I did. It was really quite inexcusable the way I dropped my manifold duties and just hopped off for two days' holiday like that. By all the laws I should have been smitten with remorse the whole time, wondering who was taking Mr. Perry for his walk, who was counting the washing, and would Charles be ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 934 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

AND THAT'S A FACT

... Well, it's like this-- 'e 'afes getlin' cold AND wet and 'e 's BOUND to get wet, any'ow I PRAWN RY J. E. BROOME. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 28 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 159 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE ROVER COMPANY LTD

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 109 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Illustrations 

Covers

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 22 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 367 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

CABARET

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Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 55 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations