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EVERY NIGHT AT HALF-PAST NINE

... EVERY NIGHT AT HALF -PAST NINE. By JOHN CLARKE. SO soon after leaving India, the whole thing seemed a little ridiculous. Ten days before, he had been muscling his way, or his right to a way, along Chowrhingee, Calcutta's main street. Now he walked along an English lane and had for company only the evening noises that insects and birds make and the scrunch of his mosquito boots on the loose top ...

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Published: Wednesday 08 August 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 140 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MOTOR INDUSTRY

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Published: Wednesday 07 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 38 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 11 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 45 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... TT r- r OO, NO! I'M THE CHARLADY. ACTUALLY, THIS IS MRS. LE GRAND-SMYTHE. DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 18 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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... PUT IT ON CAREFULLY Your Gossard is a priceless treasure today difficult to replace. The happy possessor should handle it with, great care. Always have it fitted when you buy and observe the golden rule of patient persuasion when you put it on at home. A few extra minutes in adjusting it will repay you in months of longer wear. The same flawless design and perfection of line as prevailed ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 352 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Irrepressibles

... MOTLEY NOTES, By ALAN KEMP The Irrepressibles. Sherlock Holmes taught me long ago how unobservant I am, but I constantly find myself forgetting his lesson. I don't know how many times during the war I have passed along from the Strand to Fleet Street, but it was only the other day that I noticed something which struck me as rather remark able-- a little parable, on which I feel disposed to ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2362 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 119 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 05 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 0 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 266 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

MRS. MALAPROP

... MRS, MALAPROP. Oliver MesseVs decoration of EDITH EVANS as Mrs. Malaprop in u The Rivals at the Criterion could not have been bettered. Sheridan's warm-hearted vulgarian of the tongue-slipping propensities has here the perfect setting from which Miss Evans can practise her own brand of delicious guilelessness. SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR THE SKETCH BY GRANT MACDONALD. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 55 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

A KNIGHT OF THE BURNING MORTAR

... MR. KERRIGAN was a Romantic--that is to say, he had the knack of adjusting the world to suit his own particular require ments. These stretched far beyond his desk at the office, and farther still from No. 7, Acacia Road. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 40 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations