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... f'luMjmand By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- It was a big mistake telling Faith I was frightened of Bombs. Charles always says that people who say they aren't frightened are either liars or fools, so when, in the course of a conversation with Faith, I happened to mention that I hated the idea of a Bomb dropping on my head, I little realised the effect it would have upon her attitude towards me ...

... .* By W. COOPER-WILLSON. THERE were three men in the little rowing-boat. Black night and much heaving water lay ahead. Above, driving clouds hid the stars. Astern there was light, flaring red to the sky, where the bombed tanker still blazed. The only sounds were the whistling wind and the grunt of the solitary oar, which one man worked over the stern. Sea-water trickled through the bullet- ...

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... HOW TO MAKE IT HARD FOR THE RAIDERS THE SAFE WAY WITH DELAYED-ACTION BOMBS. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. This safely first method for coping with delayed-action bombs has been carefully thought-out by W. Heath Robinson. It is believed that the use of his device would eliminate practically all risk from the removal of those disagreeable souvenirs of Nazi visits. ...

... LONDONERS FACE UP TO THE BLITZKRIEG. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 5. THE MAY FAIR. DARLINGEST VTVIEN-- I do hope you are properly impressed by the heading on the notepaper. I am so im pressed myself, I just have got to write to someone. I 've got the most heavenly room, with green silk eiderdowns and a private bathroom and a ...

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... . View of the corridors of the May Fair Hotel. J The Manager, his tin hat, and his record trout. Night Piece a Blitzkrieg study in the May Fair. The picture of an imperturbable gentleman. 1 he fifth of our pictorial and literary reviews of Blitzkrieg nights in London gives impressions of an evening at the MAY FAIR HOTEL, where dancing to Jack Jackson and his band may be enjoyed in the ...

... , MINISTRY OF FOOD THE WEEK'S mm fl! We help the war effort if we buy what happens to be plentiful in our own locality. Stocks naturally vary a little in different parts of the country, but here is a plenty list which applies to most places HOME-KILLED MEAT COFFEE POTATOES OATMEAL HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES ON THE KITCHEN FRONT How to Dry Apples We may be short of apples later in the year through ...

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