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ALL THY CONQUESTS

... mob and thrown into the Tiber, where a young man beats him to death with his oar. The Marchese betrays the General to the Socialists and the General commits suicide. Carla discovers that the American is married and tries to commit suicide. Harry, the G ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 575 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

HIS EXCELLENCY

... (Princes) The Job is the Governorship of a British colony, the Mediterranean Island of Salva, and the Boy for the Job is a Socialist politician and ex-stevedore (name of Harri- l son). He is a good, determined, single-minded Yorkshireman, but as S obstinate ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

SON AND STRANGER

... finds nothing in her situation to be coy about. Luke Milam's co-grandfather, Mr. Harris, is an ex-miner, a publican and a Socialist and, however unlikely the combination, a convincingly drawn character. First shock for the Milams is that the Harris family ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 388 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Escape to Adventure

... insincerity of their religious upbringing. Christ, whose teachings you all appear to imagine you follow, was the truest socialist that has ever lived. And the first. You all go to church on Sundays and worship him as God, yet if he appeared in a Mayfair ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1539 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

Sketch-Book

... pleasure was so great that we all Aook hands and parted with protestations of i regard, friendship and mutual gratitude. A Socialist might say that they were no more than slaves pandering to the bourgeoisie. I say I that within their own sphere they were ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1825 | Page: 11 | Tags: Review 

Lively Mrs. Masham

... a most workmanlike book. There is old Mr. Armitage the mill owner, the best chairman in the West Riding, and with him a Socialist councillor, a representative of the Communist Party, a schoolmistress, a delegate from the Youth Group, a lady designer ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1751 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... Manners, was banned to please the sensitive Socialists. The first spot of bother can be forgotten and ignored the second cannot. Why all this fuss anyway r Briefly, the story of the play is about a Socialist head of the National Atomic Board who, on receiving ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 511 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

Books

... proven. ROMANTIC Dartmoor may be Eden Phillpotts's background, but klie does not idealize his Devon natives. Brian White, Socialist railwayman, and his wife Maude are an ugly pair in The Waters of Walla (Hutchinson, 10s. 6d.). When Maude's widowed mother ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1344 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

TWO ATTEMPTS to ASSESS ALGER HISS

... genuine nature of the man whose contemporaries referred to him as the poetic upholsterer, and whom we know as poet, designer, socialist and pioneer in the arts and crafts. He designed anything from a printed fabric to a house, though people who have stayed ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1717 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

ESSAYS IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Sir Charles Petrie, Sir Paul Dukes, Mr. Wyndham Lewis, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt All ..

... brilliantly, sometimes turgidly expressed, on such matters as have interested him from time to time. Thus, one reads about the Socialist doctrine, an atomic war, Machiavelli, Nineteenth-Century Altru ism, as he puts it, and the World State, when one would far ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: Lace On Her Petticoat (Ambassadors)

... and a widow with a twinkling interest in her rough-mannered admirer. He is what was called in those days something of a Socialist, and has given the Marquess's agent the edge of his tongue. That is why he is a riveter in Glasgow. The little lady of the ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 853 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review