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Britannia and Eve

Gangway For Joe Verdock: Who Thought Fame, Fortune And The Girl Were Within His Grasp

... barrel pumps, fog sprays, D.D.T. Every thing air express, he shouted. Mark it special rush Joe hardly had a chance to speak to Helen. Several times he passed her in the corridor but she was always in a hurry. He sat across the table from her at lunch ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4553 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

Acted Off Stage

... to-morrow, and Tod Hughes says he must have Daddy's consent first. Thank heaven for that, thought Marion. She said, You must speak to Gerald at dinner. If I can't do anything else, I'll referee the fight. That isn't good enough. I expect you to be in my ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3224 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

Sizing You Up

... quantities of material and skilled labour are being dissipated on misfit garments. The buying public wastes time and money, not to speak of nervous energy, on the eternal search for a good fit. Fitters who are in charge of the busy alteration departments in every ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 605 | Page: 57 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Last Word

... magnate. Works best at factory heat. Fifty-five Fahrenheit. I'm set at fifty, said the crate. Anything over fifty Shut up. Speak when you're spoken to, said Jimmy. A half- million. Cheap at the price. A prototype model, and there aren't drawings for ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3796 | Page: 66 | Tags: Illustrations 

Sequacious of the Lyre

... round on the piano stool and saw his half-witted servitor standing in the doorway. It was the first time he had ever heard him speak and even the single word he had spoken had a peculiar quality of disuse. Babington Lovelace recovered quickly and smiled an ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3126 | Page: 90 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Singing Rain

... Henry nodded approvingly. Not bad. It fetched me in, although I don't seem to be much help. I don't see the chair you were speaking about. They found out I'd been trying to break up the furniture, so they took it all away. I managed to keep the piece ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4192 | Page: 88 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Nomads Of Britain

... J. Greenwall SOMEBODY was asking the other day whether all the British gypsies had disappeared. Could be, in a manner of speaking, but what about these tribes of new gypsies, the land and water gypsies, the Nomads of Britain? Time was when they roamed ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1434 | Page: 76 | Tags: Illustrations 

Force Of Habit: How A Murderer's Perfect Alibi Was Shattered By One Little Mistake Due To

... reflected that it must be the influence of the telephone service, always asking for a person's number before they'd condescend to speak to you, that disciplined people to give their name and address before they could get down to even the most trivial business ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3752 | Page: 80 | Tags: Illustrations 

Question Time

... sets in at about three years old. It can be an exhausting phase for parents and, in some ways, a test of ingenuity, not to speak of patience. But whereas how does the fly crawl up the wall may tax adult general knowledge, the inevitable questions on ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 773 | Page: 54 | Tags: Illustrations 

Among The Gold

... that I had it was with a sense of exquisite release. Now I am letting it go, and liking it. I have unveiled my hair, so to speak, and found it almost (Continued on page So) Among The Gold white at the temples, silver elsewhere, with streaks of my original ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 986 | Page: 82 | Tags: Illustrations 

Mission With A Ring

... That nothing about Kerwin merited her taking so much as a step towards the jungle into which he had vanished. But he couldn't speak the words. Instead, he drained his glass. He leaned back in his chair. And he remem bered the only Continued on page 66) A ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4011 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

Bees and Bonnets: A Short Story

... certain courtesy. You make it hard for me to remember my train ing. Is Miss Marley here now Oh, yes. Please tell her I wish to speak to her. I was hoping I wouldn't have to con fess to it but I am Margaret Marley. You he said. Good God, what dark places ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5629 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations