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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- All I ask of life, said Lady B., when I met her on the Cliff Path yesterday afternoon, is an onion. Cinderella, your wish is granted, For we in the garden onions planted, I said, waving my stick like a wand, and execut ing a few graceful pirouettes. Several Evacuees on a seat, whom I hadn't noticed before, craned forward to get a better view, and Lady B. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 988 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Covers

... 'Go To It' with TripIeX'.nu/ Get There! 'LfTT; W I Hi _ if '1 .ii. f ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

Graphic

... Fresh playgrounds for city children 44 East End Evacuees in Cookham Woods. The start of a strange wartime adventure 44 Evacuation of Children from Southend ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 25 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

THE NATURE OF THE CRIME

... . By OSMAR E. WHITE. RIMER stood up and flexed his muscles nervously, eyeing the wall. The narrow sliver of light across the faulty black out of the basement window had vanished half an hour ago, but the water-pipe was still dimly outlined by the reflected rays of a blue street-lamp. He must hurry. One needed to be young for these quick jobs, thought Rimer. In the old days with the travelling ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1451 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

ROLLS-ROYCE

... Hie Best Car in the World LTD. y^r7 a.1 11 V'£giHnHH|HV|Bi*vV5 14-15 CONDUIT ST. LONDON, W.I M&YFA** *20/ V: .a. v v iw^Lf ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 25 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Players Please

... PLAIN OR CORK -TIPS 10 FOR 9D 20 FOR l/5j N.C.C.538C In the National interest empty your packet at time of purchase and leave with your tobacconist finest traditions of the Navy. friendly sailor figre aU° for a proud tradition of quality and service. A guarantee that the Cigarette to thousands i same fioe Once more the 'Nelson touch is seen as our Still the same fine Navy Navy Cut. keep that ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 74 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

Covers

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BRITISH HISTORY IN STONE

... JfttTsrSiwIfsj 1. Sir alter Raleigh ENGLAND'S eyes were on the Channel. That way invasion might one day come. Young Walter Raleigh, roaming the red cliffs and flowered combes of Devon, spent his boyhood looking across its pale blue waters. His imagination was I fired by a thousand fancies. The galleons he watched were westward bound to strange and new El Dorados beyond the horizon's rim. It ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1278 | Page: Page 5, 67 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Greeks Meet: In a Desperate Situation Desperate Action is Needed

... T he Greeks Meet In a Desperate Situation Desperate Action is Needed By Arthur Mills THEY sat at a side table in the dining-room of Nicky's Club; the Greek, squat, swarthy, with inky black hair and little black eyes, fat shiny cheeks and thick nose; the doctor thin, tired looking, with high forehead. They had known and liked one another since their schooldays the meeting was Nicky's idea. Most ...

Love can be Wonderful

... A P lot which went A wry through the one Amotion that makes F ools of all Women By Peter Chey SORRY to trouble you, but anyone who says women can't take it in wartime is nuts, and if you've five minutes to spare I'll prove it. Carlos always said that if there were any justice in the world I 'd have been born a hyena, but then, Carlos always was But never mind I won't tell you what I think ...

CHECK UP

... CHSCK^ U'm /Tg By Chrysis WAR CONDITIONS have created their own crop of beauty troubles. If you want help with yours or further details of anything mentioned in this article, write to me, at 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 o^i touk looks ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2145 | Page: Page 36, 37, 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

Clothes With a Future

... By JEAN BURNUP Editor, Women's Department If half the women who used to have colds around are now wondering why they are immune this year. I 'II tell them. It is because they are keeping their feet warm and dry in wool-lined boots. (How that vogue has swept the land .J And because they are going snugly to bed or shelter-bed in high-necked, long-sleeved, woollen nightdresses distractingly ...