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HUNTLEY & PALMERS

... JKfc!?.. mv GOLDEN BIX 6d ABOUT f 140 BISCUITS HALF TO THE POUND POUND Lr,ite7 V GOLDEN BIN ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 18 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES

... . By ALAN KEMP. THE TOAD. THE Banished Duke was a confirmed bright-sider, if ever there was one. I haven't a word to say against the Forest of Arden for a camping week-end; but any man who can derive moral satisfaction from the churlish chiding of the winter's wind, on the ground that it feelingly persuades me what I am, has got to give me a stroke a hole in the virtues of patience and ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1085 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENGLAND GOES TO IT

... DRAWS UY FRANK REYNOLDS. 'Yes,' I sez, 'we 'ave spargelti or sauerkrout, come fo that. But you'll 'ave roast beef,' I sez, 'and like it!' ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 29 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

G. E. C

... &&C. s&e. QUALITY PRODUCTS Fafriotic buying fo-day means buying only necessifies-- and buying ihem to last. That is why, in the purchase of electrical necessifies, you would be wise to choose from the range of G.E.C. quality products. eve fifth in (f Electrical far the Howe MADE IN ENGLAND Sold by all Electrical Suppliers 4dvt. of The General Electric Co., Ltd., Magnet House, Kingstvay, London ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 68 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

NORTH BRITISH GOLF BALLS

... NORTH BRITISH GOLF BALL! Per ardua ad asfra Who can have watched our Airmen, or have read of their exploits, without deep pride in their mastery of the air These are the men who, when on leave, pursue a golf ball with as much determination as they pursue their quarry. And when that ball is a NORTH BRITISH S.S. screaming from the club-head with supercharged force, how it must remind them of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

Covers

... Registered as a Newspaper for AnrL RADfl AV BODIES ARE FITTED'T THE SKETCH, Transmission In the United Kingdom. Wt/LA THROUGHOUT WITH JULY 3, 1940 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 24 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

SIXTH COLUMN STRATEGY: A WARM WELCOME FOR EVERY PARACHUTIST

... . DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. W. Heath Robinson's foresight and inventive genius have inspired him to prepare plans to deal with the invasion of parachutists when it comes. Naturally he has no intention of interfering with the parashots proper, but his idea of mobilising Sixth Columnists to prepare a ivarm welcome for imitations of rural deans, nuns, sailors and schoolgirls when they come ...

Please Forward Overseas

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I picked up a paper this morning, and read a cheery little article which said that if you are caught in an air raid while out in the street, the best thing to do is to throw yourself into the nearest doorway and lie on the ground with your feet towards the street, and put a piece of indiarubber between your teeth to prevent you ear-drums from bursting. I read ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 863 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

FIRST-HAND IMPRESSIONS OF THE MASSEY SHAW'S FOURTH RESCUE TRIP TO DUNKIRK

... FIRST-HAND IMPRESSIONS OF THE MASSEY SHAW'S FOURTH RESCUE TRIP TO DUNKIRK. A realistic impression painted from the fire-boat 44 MASSEY SHAW, in Dunkirk Harbour showing the fire along the beaches. A German aero plane had spotted the boat, and had just dropped two bombs, thirty yards astern which threw up the huge column of water depicted by the artist. 44 MASSEY SHAW in Dun kirk Harbour at ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Advertisements

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Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 814 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE INTRUSIONS OF DR. CZISSAR: 1.--THE CASE OF THE PINCHBECK LOCKET

... THE INTRUSIONS OF DR. CZISSAR.* By ERIC AMBLER. Author of The Mask of Demetrius. I.-- THE CASE OF THE PINCHBECK LOCKET. THE winter afternoon on which Dr. Jan Czissar chose to introduce his peculiar personality into the life of Assistant- Commissioner Mercer of Scotland Yard was cold and de pressing. And Mercer, besides having a cold and being depressed, was also busy. Had Dr. Czissar not been ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3479 | Page: Page 26, 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

SIXTH COLUMN STRATEGY: FRUSTRATING AN ATTEMPT TO DISORGANISE LONDON BY ALTERING BIG BEN'S TIME

... . Big Ben symbolises the stability of life in London, and the regularity and unhurried national tempo so it is only natural to suppose that Fifth Columnists should desire to confuse us by altering the famous clock's time. IV. Heath Robinsons lively imagination has supplied a method of frustrating anything like this. It will be noted that the vigilant Sixth Columnists are disguised as Gothic ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 84 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations