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... COME ON, LAD, DANCIN'S EASY. JUST 'OLD 'EM TIGHT, SAME AS A RIFLE! B DRAWN* BY FRANK REYNOLDS. v ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 19 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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... 4 By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I don't know whether it is the East Wind, or War Weariness, or just that we've taken the slogan Is Your Journey Really Necessary? too literally and not been away from this place enough, but anyhow. everybody has sud denly become very bad-tempered and disagreeable, and if things go on as they are, soon nobody will be on speaking terms with any body else. ...

THE MOTOR INDUSTRY Production for Victory

... THE MOTOR INDUSTRY ttfduc&tot jfert Clfafotp THE MOTOR INDUSTRY i emtkehfte. I am tough and take the jolts and jars on all the broken roads of war. I carry the guns, the ammunition and stores of every kind. Into battle I take our fighting men, and out of battle the wounded and the sick. On the Home Front, too, I have a full-time job keeping the wheels of road transport turning. In War as in ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 166 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHILPRUFE Regd

... CHILPRUFE -Made, Jofefe/ ibr 8 CHILPRUFE When you were very young T h e name CHILPRUFE stood and still stands for the best underwear procurable. Its Protection and Dura bility are qualities every1 Mother appreciates. Now today, it is your problem and your desire to provide the same protection for your children so that they will grow healthy and happy. And so the Chilprufe (tradition goes on. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 94 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Nearly Time

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Nearly Time. To most of us, it is not much satisfaction to know that great minds think alike, because we are not competing in that class; but it is a distinct satisfaction to find great minds concurring in our own simple thoughts and sentiments, and in much the same terms that we ourselves might have used. I fancy, therefore, that General Montgomery strikes a respon ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2342 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Issued by SIMPLEX ELECTRIC CO. LTD

... Electric HEATING A fire in tasteful design, of a type or finish for any scheme of decoration this is Crcda Electric Heating f 10 111 which you get warmth without work. Make a note for your post-war home. DLDBURY, BIRMINGHAM ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 52 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Gillette in battledress

... Mobile Tjnit certainly gets around however tough the going. The Blue Gillette Blades have gone to man the guns for the duration. But the Standard Gillette blades are carrying on. Of fine steel finely tempered they dis patch the stubbornest heard in true Gillette fashion. Gillette Standard and Standard Thin Blades (plain steel) 2d. each, including Purchase Tax. Fit all Gillette razors, old or ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 86 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: A Merry Old Soul

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. A Merry Old Soul. Some millions of years ago a number of forests and trees and plants, which up to that time had given no cause of complaint, became discouraged and went out of business. They remained dead, buried and forgotten until some ass, after a considerable interval, dis covered that all this vegetable ma 1 1 e r had become carbon ised and made good fuel. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2497 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... 'S'ORL RIGHT, DUCKS! YOU'VE GOT ME WITH YER! DRAWN BV FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 12 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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... fluM^mand By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Mrs. Whinebite came round a short time ago to ask me whether I would take part in a Women's Institute Shakespeare Competition. I 'm afraid I haven't got time, I said hastily. It only has to last ten minutes, said Mrs. Whine- bite in a wheedling voice. I have often thought it would be rather fun to be Hamlet for ten minutes, and I said so now. You ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

TAILORED

... Even brides must be practical these days, and a trousseau which just a few years ago was frankly frivolous has become tailored with the emphasis on cut, not on trimming lovely to wear, easy to launder, good for packing. The dressing-gown house-coat here is of a linen mixture, saxc-blue in colour, spotted and piped with white. It comes from Marshall and Snclgrovc so does the tailored bed-jacket ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations