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DOG'S BODY

... DOG S body: By JOHN DELLBRIDGE. ARTHUR KALEHAM did not look like a criminal. His jaw was square but not prognathous, his brow was broad but did not beetle, his nose was aquiline and not flat, his ears, eyes and mouth were rather fine. None of his fellow-passengers in the 10.49 from Maidstone would have guessed that he had just been discharged from the prison there, after serving a sentence of ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1371 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

Schweppes

... Twelfth Day Eve An old Devon shire custom still kept up in some parts is the toasting of the apple trees. The farmer, attended by his workpeople and accompanied by an enormous pitcher of cider, goes to the orchard and encircling one of the trees recites Here's to thee, old apple tree Whence thou mays I bud, and whence thou mayst blow f And whence thou mayst bear apples enow Hats full Caps full ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 105 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

SELFRIDGES LTD., OXFORD STREET, LONDON, ..

... SELF RIDGES LTD., OXFORD STREET, LONDON, V- SELF RIDGES LTD., OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W-1- EjXCbuswe Tailor-mades This smart Brenner Sports model in >e- finest quality men's Grey suiting carries simplicity with novelty. (18 Coupon*.) £30:3:0 Personal Selection. From the Model Suit Dept., Second Floor. MAYfnir 1234 ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 46 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Are you tired? As you are basking on a boat-deck somewhere you ought not to be, but you probably are, because everybody I know is terribly tired. They started on V-Day, and continued with a sort of mounting fatigue until VJ-Day, when they flung themselves on their beds and lay there with closed eyes, refusing to join in any form of celebration and only getting ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1102 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

R.A.F. PILOTS OF THE VICTORY BELLS APPEAL

... R.A.F. PILOTS OF THE pj VICTORY BELLS APPEAL. r I *HIS is Victory Year, and every house must have a Victory H y- -L Bell The big Appeal for a mammoth sale of these Bells (cast from the metal of German aircraft shot down over this S s country), in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund, was launched at I a 44 Victory Bells dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. James Frew, at which Battle of Britain pilots ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 298 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Advertisements

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Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 220 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: . . Approaching These Islands

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Approach ing These Islands. That unbroken succession of trials, outrages, exasperations and frustrations which, in the British Isles, goes by the name of weather is undoubtedly responsible for the tough qualities of the English character which win wars and may even have a shot at winning the peace. I am writing this at the seaside, whither I have been driven by ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2287 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

MAX BEERBOHM AT THE LEICESTER GALLERIES

... . J^OR seventeen years SIR MAX BEERBOHM has not touched a pencil, yet the appeal of his witty cartoons with their clean, assured line and and colouring is as fresh as ever. The Leicester Galleries are showing 4 caricatures from the collection of the late Mr. Philip Guedalla they cover lRooW^°^e Max Beerbohm's activities in this form of art from 92-1928. Mrs. Guedalla offered the choice of the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 207 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations