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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Last week posters ap peared up and down the Street which said, GIVE A GOOD BOOK IN AID OF THE RED CROSS. I was pleased when I saw them, for I thought it must mean that books of a religious nature were needed, and as I haven't got any it absolved me from all responsibility. To part with even one of the tattered and incon gruous volumes which form what I am ...

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Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 83 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHAMPION SPARKING PLUG COMPANY LIMITED

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Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 84 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Ships that Pass in the Night

... MOTLEY NOTES By ALAN KEMP. Ships that Pass in the Night. If it is of any interest to the Fuhrer, I will tell him without further ado that I am allergic to Doodlebugs. He prefers to call them Dynamite Meteors, while others favour Pilotless 'Planes (which I cannot get round my tongue, and which I always read as Pitiless Planes); but I think the genius of the R.A.F. for unbasic English has ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2028 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 06 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 4 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 31 May 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 18 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

SPORTOWN LTD

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Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 45 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Old and True

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Old and True. In the year 1809-- no, I am not writing my reminiscences! --there was a Great Man who threatened to trample on the whole of Europe, including England. He had done most of the trampling already, and there seemed to be nothing to stop him doing the rest. He was a Fuhrer, if ever there was one he had a Grand Army, he led a Herrenvolk, and he was going to ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2376 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 23 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 31 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 23 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 71 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 23 February 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 481 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 20 September 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 40 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations