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THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED: THE TATLER AT THE THEATRE

... THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED By ANTHONY COOKMAN THE TATLER AT THE THEATRE THE body needed to be exceedingly well nourished. After taking a murderous knock from a pair of knobby fire-tongs, and after spend ing some hours buried in a grand piano, it was still able to totter out for further punish ment. It was promptly chloroformed. What happened to it thereafter we are not told. It is one of a ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 847 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK THE comedian was reviewing to an audience in the club his recent country tour. Everywhere, accord ing to him, he was a sensation. Even in the very toughest towns. Speaking of one small town he shook his head sadly, however. Now there, he observed, was a tough audience. Really tough, I mean. Why, the act ahead of me was hissed off the stage. Yes, really. They just hissed and ...

THE MINISTRY OF FOOD

... , , LONDON, S.W.I MINISTRY OF FOOD THE WEEK'S IMfS ggpll ,/^.S a Lancashire man said. We've m. got through to the Final'. We are good at finals. But mark this we go into training for finals. We harden ourselves, and we discipline our lives. Only by fostering every ounce of our national resources in our kitchens just as much as in our manufactures can we field a team that will be unbeatable. ...

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THE STRATEGY OF THE MASS ATTACK: As Evidenced by Recent Air Raids on Britain

... THE STRATEGY OF THE MASS ATTACK As Evidenced by Recent Air Raids on Britain The recent mass attacks on this country by hordes of Nasi bombers and fighter-planes have prompted the series of drawings published on these pages. They have been devised to show, in diagrammatic form, the methods under lying the big attaeks on England. It is not claimed for our diagrams that they are exact that is not ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 599 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... Judging by Air Ministry communiques, most of the fighting in North Africa by the R.A.F. has been done in Gloster Gladiators. They would be considered out of date in this part of the world, but they are so manoeuvr able that, if well flown, none of the high speed fighters would get near enough to them to shoot. And they are probably the best machines with which to tackle the little Italian ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1111 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENGLAND GOES TO IT

... SORRY, MUM I THOUGHT IT WAS THE AIR-RAID WARNING I DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 18 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON: COTTAGE TO LET, AT WYNDHAM'S

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, i Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 20. COTTAGE TO LET, AT WYNDHAM'S. LAURA was im mensely sur prised when Rodney, over dinner at the York Minster, told her that he had got tickets tor Wyndham's. She had ex pected either the ballet, or some quaint little theatre with only fifty members, or some rather ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1138 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

MISS LINWOOD'S BIG DAY

... .* By F. KESTON CLARKE. MISS LINWOOD'S landlady was heavily jocular about it. She beamed along the breakfast-table. Now, don't be late. Auntie. It 's your big day, you know. And the baldheaded lodger, who always took his tone from the landlady, chuckled. Yes, Auntie. Thirty-five years, isn't it, you 've had behind the bars Quite a stretch. While the lady with the earrings, who worked at a ...

THE MINISTRY OF FOOD

... , , MINISTRY OF FOOD THE WEEK'S FACTS No. 5 Do you feel, as many women do, that war-time house keeping would be easier if only you could count on getting a little special advice from a kitchen expert? Here's your chance without trouble, without cost, without even having to leave your own home. Just switch on your radio every morning at 8.15. You'll hear the answers to your own kind of food ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 389 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 429 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 235 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations