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here that he ·would set out, each morning, to view the city. The steep slopes from the piazza to the

... brooding on their long ob ervations. I used to linger near them, COUNTRY LIFE - JANUARY 19 1951 half expecting they would speak and tell me their stony secrets-whisper hoar ely the whereabouts of their mouldering fellows, still unrecovered from the soil ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1382 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

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... unfortunate in his choice of hearer. The man he accosted was notorious as a newsmonger, and no sooner had Higgins begun to speak of the housebreaking and murder at Bri tol than the other pricked up his ears, How do you know anything about it, Higgins ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 359 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

OF THE PARIS SCHOOL

... that they stand out clearly for all to see, understand and enjoy. It might, of course, be mailltainecl that the paintings speak for themselves; indeed they do. Yet if the exhibition aimed at It might, of course, be maill- being instructive, then instructive ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3110 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

... experience of the senior author and other physicians. -A Textbook of Dietet-ics by L. S. P. Davidson and lan A. Anderson. (b) Speaking in the Lords Debate on October 24, 1945, Lord Hankey said : I cannot find a word of condemnation about bran in Sir Jack ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2637 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

THE STORY OF STY HEAD

... he goes that way. Perhaps one day some Of course, as the purists point out, the name Sty Head Pass is incorrect. Vve should speak of the tee, which meant a steep path or ladder in the Old Norse of our Cumbrian forbears (as it still does in Norway and in ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3446 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

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... the dug-out, he would have been blown to smithereens; but he survived to go home on leave and meet Mnriel Speake. If he had done what Muriel Speake wanted and gone to bed with her, he would have been late home and so would have missed Mr. Graham, who was ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2919 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

RECORDS

... Song No Sttpper. And just to ensure fu ll measure, the programme adds that in the course of the evening Mr. De Camp will speak an address ·written for the conclude with The l\lusical measure, The prices for this galaxy of entertainment were : boxes, ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 653 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

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... Agriculture always has some troubles and nowadays the industry's spokesmen can put t heir case clearly and cogently. The speaking at the Central Hall, Westminster, matched the standard of oratorical performance Parliament Square and the speeches At the ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1270 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

SHINGLING: THE DECLINE OF A CRAFT

... side-line. However, curiosity and interest are sometimes stimulated by rarity : having learnt so much, I wished to find and speak with a cleaver who made shingles. H. L. Edlin's Woodland Crafts in Britain provided a clue-Lewes, in Sussex. Various postal ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3090 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

By G. BERNARD HUGHES

... and other homely d coration. When far at sea~em embel• me And bear rne in your m:ind. Let all the world say what they will Speak of me as you find. F lint-glass rolling-pins were made at Jail- ea, Sunderland, tourbridge, Birmingham and Alloa, in Scotland ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1489 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

THE FUTURE OF HELIGOLAND

... destroying the only beautiful island of r ock in the r orth Sea? W e old H eligolanders have never been German-we used to speak our own H illigelunn languagewe are simply independent fishing folk, and we have some English blood. Let England give us back ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3455 | Page: 33 | Tags: none