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CANADIAN PILOT WRITES HOME

... . R.A.F., Scotland. My Dear Hank, So you've been moving around way back home, have you? Seems like we've both been doing the same thing. I couldn't give you any gen on this before as it was all kinda hush-hush. We were told one morning by the Squadron Leader we had been given a special job to do which would entail our moving up to Scotland. Speaking personally, that suited me mighty fine. I ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1364 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

A SCRAP OF PAPER

... By DOUGLAS NEWTON. TAKING the letter from Gordon Rowan, the lawyer read: BELOVED-- We cannot go on like this. Since you swear that Gordon is our son, and not your husband's, it is not only for love's sake, but our duty as honourable people that you and I must leave Carrwater to begin a happier and more honest life together in some remote place. There the past can be forgotten. It was signed ...

FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

... FORD MOTOR COMPANY L I M I T E E , DAGENHAM, ESSEX. LONDON SHOWROOMS: 88, REGENT STREET, W.I Until then Skating by carlight is just one of the pleasures we have had to give up for the duration like the pleasure of having a new Ford Car and being able to run it without restriction. But we willingly forego these things for the sake of speeding the day of Victory and the return of the good life, ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 125 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- There was a time when I preferred Summer to Winter. Feeling the cold as I do, the approach of January, February and March used to fill me with dread; and soon after Christmas, when the East winds began to blow, I would get what Charles calls my sick monkey look, and, wrapped in misery and shawls, remain, like the hibernating toad, in a state of suspended ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

HOPPITY GOES TO TOWN-- NEW INSECT DRAMA FILM

... HOPPITY GOES TO TOWN NEW INSECT DRAMA FILM. Hoppity, hero of the new insect drama cartoon picture takes the beautiful Honey-bee to an underground night club. The Loiclanders are driven from their home by workmen who are starting to build a sky-scraper. It *s as bad as an air raid C. Bagley Beetle, the rich insect, directs workmen engaged' on building a cathedral of grass for his wedding to ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Graphic

... MY DEAR, COUPONS OR NO COUPONS, I JUST HAD TO SUPPORT RUSSIA DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Peek Trean's

... f (AM RATHE* RARE- ONLY A$K j TOUR SHARE a It is tempting to search every where for Peek Frean's to enjoy that unvarying quality for which these biscuits are famous. But please don't do it. Trust your regular dealer, who will consider you all the more if you are patient and under stand his many difficulties. BRITAIN'S CRISPEST BISCUITS sfatJld'tecu ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 61 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: All Over the Shop

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. All Over the Shop. Sir (I seem to hear the Doctor booming) I was ever of opinion that the terrestrial globe is unfit for human habitation. Then why, Sir, squeaks Boswell, has it pleased Providence to people it with human beings? Because, Sir, human beings are fools, and it is eminently consonant with the wisdom of Providence to treat them as such. This ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2422 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... ENEMY ICE MORTARS FOR PREVENTING PURSUIT WHEN CROSSING FROZEN RIVERS. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 15 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

The General Electric Co. Ltd

... Advt. of Advt. of , Magnet House, Kingsway, London W.C.2 /■9Z4 .fotzay: THE contrast between the elaborate silk covered lamp standard of 1914, and its modern elegant counterpart symbolises the rapid and continuous progress always being made in the electrical industry. Science did not stand still in 1914 and to-day the G.E.C. is keeping abreast of developments and improve ments that Will ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 89 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

Gordon's

... lis is it L f lit* Gin firo\ per bottle I 1 h'botfteS/ J 1 \h-bo//le 4^9 J GORDON'S ORANGE AND LEMON GINS i Bottles 17/- A-bottles 9/- GORDON'S SHAKER COCKTAILS Bottles 13/- i-bottles 6/9 The prices apply to Gt. Britain and N. Ireland Standi S upteme 'J he lalfdl fn diitiUehl in the woUd ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 57 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Too Much Joy

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Too Much Joy. And so, after all, we are not to have the Mike in the Mother of Parliaments. For what we have not received may we be truly thankful. To think that once upon a time none of the profanum vulgus was admitted to the council-chamber, not even in the gods, and that it was a high contempt to publish a word of the sacred utterances of Hon. Members-- why, ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2370 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: Illustrations