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Winter Green

... out of doors but will obviously not live happily near a roaring fire one day if they have to shiver the next. Generally speaking, they prefer a fairly even coolth rather than warmth. They dislike the dryness caused by electric fires avert this by providing ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 455 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

Firm Foundations

... variety of bases on the market. Some are thick and creamy, others are in liquid form to suit every type of skin. GENERALLY speaking, a thick, creamy base is better for the older skin. Thin liquid foundations are good for young skins but are a little more ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 449 | Page: 55 | Tags: Illustrations 

Reverie of the Pines

... Rees, that day, was playing with a club-member whose skill at golf was sufficient and respectable if left to itself, so to speak, but was reduced, by contact and comparison with the maestro, to a travesty, a demmed outline of the game. I watched Rees putting ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 861 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

At the Pictures

... new good-looking actress, Patricia Wayne, who will be better still if she can learn not to open her mouth so long before speaking a number of pleasing small-part performers and a most mercifully agreeable background of the English countryside. There is ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1247 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advice to Tourists

... rare Englishmen who speak perfect French, that the natives are less affable and drive harder bargains. So there are, after all, some ad vantages, if only financial, in the horrid sounds made by the ordinary English when they try to speak French. Walkerley ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1188 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

at the theatre: Venus Observed (St. James's)

... delightfully. None of the women who have been at some time implicated in the joyous overture of the Duke's life has a part to speak of, but only Miss Valerie Taylor really needs one for purposes of the story, and she performs prodigies of brick, making without ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1047 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

SIR ALFRED MUNNINGS, P.P.R.A

... sure that he is not always or often worrying about the sins of the present. He has too large an appetite for living and for speaking his mind. Give him the freedom of a saddle, the right of free speech, and a paintbrush i by his side, and he will even forget ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1076 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

BUBBLE & SQUAK

... AN old acquaintance of the writer's, let us call him Herringbone, who was also a prospective Parliamentary candidate, was speaking: If we are to put this country on her feet again, we must improve the status quo. What is the status quo demanded a heckler ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 808 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

Make Up Your Mind

... of the boat this morning had been the final straw, but when she'd regained con sciousness she'd gone up to her hut without speaking to him. There was movement down the track, but he didn't look up it would be Jerry, bringing up some beer. Well, they'd get ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5453 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By..

... Of quaint apparel for a half-spoilt boy And, even worse the umbrella spread To weather-fend the Celtic Herdsman's head All speak of manners with'ring to the root (etc.). Hence it is not surprising that a recent traveller found the Highland Gael sneezing ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 972 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations