Refine Search

Article

... aloofness from life like the snow-capped peaks above her village. Unlike most of the other members of the Revue, she could speak only one language, German Peter's German was still stilted and so their conversation had been across the barrier of language ...

Foreign Wives: The Romance of Wartime Weddings

... the words. But he returned miserable from the rendezvous. She had refused him. What did she tell you? asked his English-speaking friend. She said that she didn't want to. And how did she tell you that? I got her to write it down. The soldier fumbled ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2621 | Page: 15, 63, 64 | Tags: Photographs 

YEAR OF RETURN: On its Threshold, how many Millions of Families Are Thinking, We'll See Him Again This Year

... Christ mas. Let lis hope that well before then, hundreds of thousands who to-day treasure photographs and make absent lips speak so as not to forget voices, will be reunited with their subjects.- Hundreds of thousands? In the van, from our standpoint, ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1599 | Page: 18, 56 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Tales Re-told: The Trice of Glory; Incidents from the Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi

... easier to recall the forgotten past. At last I greeted her by saying Tu devi esser mia (Thou oughtest to be mine). I could speak but little Portuguese and uttered the bold words in Italian. Yet my bold ness fascinated her. I had formed a tie, pronounced ...

Let Us Talk Of The English Counties: Their Own Customs, Characteristics, Traditions and Food

... little more than large counties, and have hall-marked their kilts, bagpipes, V. harps and legends quite enough as it is. I speak on behalf of England, Rk.\ victim of the industrial age which has kept Scotland and Wales alive. However The other day, in ...

On and off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; Dining Out

... Fund for Warsaw, of which she is chairman. In the absence of Mr. John Gielgud, who was prevented by illness from coming to speak on behalf of this appeal, Lady Sinclair made an excellent speech, saying how Warsaw has suffered longer and more cruelly than ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2040 | Page: 10, 12, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Pintmes in the fine: suner-imposing

... Aber ruhig Then in a whisper Ich bin Gobbels On the Road The next two words, naturally, are To Mandalay. The best road and I speak from personal experience is bv one of those Irrawaddy luxury liners which used to exist before the slime of the Sons of Heaven ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1890 | Page: 21, 22 | Tags: Comic strips  Photographs 

With Silent Friends: Foreigners in Time

... their similarities which were marked were facts to be faced. Camden, historian of their own time, in writing of Leicester speaks of Elizabeth as one to whom by a certain conjunction of their minds, and that haply through a hidden conjunction of the stars ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1994 | Page: 24, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

With Silent Friends: National Figure

... differences I of class, of politics, of religion no longer exist. Of the beginning of the I movement, the first stirring, Gerbier speaks to a friend in a con- I centration camp How it came about I don't know. I think no one will ever know. I But one day a peasant ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2044 | Page: 24, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A HIDDEN LEGION BUTTRESSES the WEST WALL

... open up. This was the moment he had been coached to wait for. When we should put in a pigeon. Clever going the reluctance to speak, so that, when he did, we should be conditioned to. gobble up what he said. The Germans even carted a select batch of men from ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW LAMPS and OLD: A Fortnightly Causerie on Life and Letters

... of Auburn. He must speak in the language of his rural flock which all may understand. Does he There is the rub. There are more languages than one in the Established Church, and here and there it may happen that the shepherd speaks to his flock in a language ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1507 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 280

... for air armadas. Even now in Budapest and the Ardennes the tempo should satisfy the most robust and blood thirsty, not to speak of Italy and Burma and the Philippines. We at home, harassed everywhere by regula tions, war-worn and here and there still ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2044 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs