... Speaking as an Aries man by CLAUD COCKBURN I RECALL the former editor of a Sunday newspaper telling me that for him the most alarming day of World War Two was that on which the wife of one of the tiptop figures at the War Office rang him up to ask if ...

... public opinion went tolling into the chamber, and when Mr. A. Greenwood stood up, the House shouted at him Speak for England, Arthur The man who speaks for England to-day, be it Churchill or Bevin or a new M.P. making his maiden speech, can have the ghttering ...

... biscuit-tin, for he was a gentleman and it was Diamond Jubilee Year, but this is not the flaw in the procedure, pro fessionally speaking. The flaw is the quite un necessary topper-business, seeing that in 1897 nobody would ever question a real toff strolling ...

... non-members are welcome. A short tour of some of London's older clubs makes it clear that such is not the ease. Strictly speaking, night clubs only came into existence in 1950. Before that they were officially private parties where invitees paid no membership ...

... the very few English actresses (Greer Garson is Irish) to settle down as a Holly wood star speaking a genuinely international language, valid in all English-speaking countries. Miss Lupino is not a particularly subtle or polished actress. But she has inherited ...

... immaculate efforts could prevent the lady from becoming a bore. But there were moments of redemption Robert Harris and Peter Coke speaking from the Book of Job itself, the voices of the Westminster choirboys and the elocution of Robert Speaight, whose cadences ...

... Richard has built up what was once an elderly Mayfair establishment into a resort where tables are sought by gourmets, so he speaks with authority. Is he right in this francs vs. the question? We put it to the test recently at a West End restaurant; it just ...

... upset the Brahmins as well. He was referring to the pained reaction to mob-merriment of the Lowells (who speak only to Cabots), the Cabots (who speak only to God), the Quincys, the Parkmans, the Copleys, the Howells, and the other Bostonian crowned heads ...

... If Mr. Gerald Barry is in the Lounge, will he kindly come to the phone, please The Spirit of Empire Claret would like to speak to him. 'C arlock Employing a Dutch clairvoyant to help trace the Scone Stone was such a promising new venture on the part ...

... kindergarten, but Mr. Bailey cannot be included in the company. A month's residence in Central Africa is no qualification to speak authoritatively about a serious-minded play set in Southern Rhodesia, except in one respect. Miss Doris Lessing, the author ...

... at least pity, for a Macbeth who is plausible, though hardly to be justified by the fuller text. He and some of his actors speak the great lines well enough in synthetic Scotch if only they were not afraid that faster than snail's pace would slip past ...

... to thinking out demarches in their shirtsleeves. Trousers were not removed in public by the Corps Diplomatique, generally speaking, till Major Salem's recent performance in the Sudan, but one or two Chancelleries have for some time been making discreet ...