... spiv- gangster, and by the priest of the church she con stantly attends a quality that could be called positive virtue. By accident Rosa is embroiled in a shabby circle of London criminals, who threaten but fail to intimidate her. They are well drawn in ...

... friend tells us in the foreword to the last novel suffered thirteen years of chronic and painful ill ness caused by a road accident in which he sus tained a serious fracture of the spine. And those years (it is impressive to realize) were also those of ...

... produced. National Children's Safety Week began on March 19. Barrie Edgar, helped by the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents, and Claude Hulbert (who was keen to wear his old school cap and blazer again) showed young TV viewers how they can make ...

... others, two boys and a girl, the girl and one of the boys being twins by a little governess, who happened more or less by accident, the hero from Mafeking having mistaken her room for that of someone else, whom he was hotly pursuing. We get the atmosphere ...

... little help from his associates, does 6 a touch of moonstruck majesty into his r61e. But the plot, which some 0 involves a racing motorist (Nigel Patrick) and a Spanish bullfighter (M Cabre), as well as the archaeologist (Harold Warrender) who tells the ...

... descrip tions as the point to point race ridden by Tubby at the beginning of the book. Everything was laid out on the bed and on the tug beside it; white cotton breeches, black and red jersey (he had never afforded a racing silk), ladies' silk stockings, thin ...

... brotherly love. I will start the races myself. My chaplain will stand at the winning post to see fair play, and to call out the result. Now, Reverend Gentlemen, let us see what you can do Protests were in vain, and the races were held. They were all won by ...

... was preposterous. His race was a handicap, though surely not so much of a handicap as Mr. Hesketh Pearson seems to think, when he speaks of a romantic story, invented by the man himself. On the maternal side surely he was of that race of Spanish or Portuguese ...

... year of the first German millennium of Adolf Hitler, a hospital patient on a huge sporting estate, where slaves of the under races are dressed in skins, and used as hounds and quarry for the fantastic sport of Nordic supermen. a lan Querdilion, after various ...

... story for the story's sake towards the end we are sitting forward just as filmgoers, long ago, used to sit forward during the race between the train and the motor-car in wasn't it Intolerance. Absurd, incredible maybe, but after three hours of theatrical ...

... pretty but intemperate English mistress and the tragedy which drives her to suicide, and which is brought about by the trivial accident of enclosing two letters in the wrong envelopes. As ever, Miss Brahms writes with a crisp vivacity and a wonderful sense ...

... the sculptor's studio, which the sculptor, in effect, steals. He is modelling a memorial for J. G.'sson, killed in a flying accident. This young man intended to be an actor and had quotations always on his lips. There is a refrain in a poem of Hilaire Belloc's ...