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Britannia and Eve

Within The Bounds Of Modesty?

... Church attacked the ladies for wearing too much it also attacked the gentlemen for wearing too little. Upon the other side to speak of the horrible disordinate scantinesse of clothing that through their shortnesse do not cover the shameful members of man ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1640 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

LEAVE IT TO SIR JOHN

... Mother said that you she paused and flushed a little. I admit I am on occasions a little forgetful, said Sir John, also speaking with dignity. But of course we expected you. Sarah accepted his statement, knowing that in fact he had for gotten, or would ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5719 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

Country Letter

... up to harvest-- at least it does with us, here in the corn- belt of East Anglia. Corn-growing has been in our blood, so to speak, for centuries. The heavy clay is just right for it, so is the plentiful sunshine. In the old days, here, farming was corn ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1287 | Page: 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Odd Things People Do

... Professor Clement was acquitted of fraud at Toulouse after he had marketed a mag netized love perfume. The accompanying leaflet speaks (or smells) for itself This perfume has been specially prepared to help you, even by mail, to be seductive, to charm, to ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3146 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Thing Of Beauty: An Immoral Trifle

... standing in front of it? How had he actually put them down He had been so sure. And now he wasn't. That old scoundrel was still speaking. You can prosecute me, of course, he was saying, but not without exposing yourself to public ridicule. Batesby flushed ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4223 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

ROYAL HIGHLAND HOME

... folk when, talking to the Queen about her husband, he said It's very pleasant to walk with a person who is always content. Speaking again of the Prince, Brown remarked Everyone on the estate says there never was so kind a master I am sure our only wish ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1510 | Page: 66 | Tags: Illustrations 

Dinner with uncle matthew

... to replace the receiver, then restored it to his ear again. The invisible speaker went on for a little time, then stopped speaking. Well, Henry the other overheard. The instrument was half-an-inch from the Warden's ear. They had no doubt whose voice it ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3261 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

The GOOD NATURED MAN

... grip, she seemed to speak with difficulty. I want to give them, I want you to promise me. Kirby was aghast; the situation ought to be wildly funny, but he had never felt farther from laughter. In a moment, when she stopped speaking, he must say something ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5091 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations 

OLD TALES RETOLD

... even the island's name. And the folk feared their laird too much to SHk disobey h'm- There was one man only dared AmmT to speak kindly to Lady Grange Roderick Maclennon, the wandering preacher who settled in the island in 1735. He had wept when he had ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2331 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Matter Of Command

... become master of this ship. So long as the captain is on board Mrs. Parsons, I swear Do not, Mr. Bryce it would be use less. I speak for the captain. I know his wishes. We continue towards Liver pool. SHE plied her needle firmly to indicate that the conversation ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3355 | Page: 70 | Tags: Illustrations 

No Escape From The Passport

... tourist trade, reduced the forma lities to a minimum. People began to talk of passports almost nostalgically, rather as we now speak of fans and maypoles as quaint reminders of more colourful times. And for a number of years before the first World War, it ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1870 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

Too Much Respect For Period

... products of our own age is with detachment. Are they practical, aesthetically admirable or are they vulgar and misshapen? Speaking more generally than is perhaps advisable in such a matter I would say that though our interior decorating is interesting ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1575 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations