... another silence, and Brenda felt her nerves tensing under it. Watching Gilbert lighting his cigar, she knew that he was ready to speak. She wished that Miles would seize the initiative, and demand his business. But Miles gave no sign. He was a man who'd braced ...

... should help to support those who were worse off. To this he waved his hand round the little room in which we sat and said Speaking as one of the worse-offs I couldn't agree more. I told him laughingly that living in an Institution for a year no doubt ...

... does by learning the elements of arithmetic, spelling or needlework? And the second letter from a pupil teacher claiming to speak for thousands of other ex- Service trainee teachers Psychologists and educationists insist that the play way is the only ...

... ad-pleasure- of sailing in great ship Aquitania thinking repeat thinking to-day of her- passing and nobody can ask more. Speaking as an ex-passenger, one might as well be invited to weep over the Savoy. Americans are much better at shooting this line ...

... or has got to be that, it's ten to one some woman has got there before you and told him exactly what he wants her to be. Speaking pretty generally, however, you can be sure of the following: you've got to be pretty, face, legs, figure, etc. well, the ...

... education by tutors one of whom, a conscientious professor, committed suicide in despair of ever being able to teach his charge to speak the truth or think honestly. By twenty he had, with the help of a young and scheming Countess, enmeshed his elder brother in ...

... advertising, Harry said, but this was distasteful to them, since, in their cultured innocence, they held that a good thing speaks for itself. To this he had rudely replied Yes, but not nearly loud enough. As soon as they could afford it, he said, they ...

... made her getaway at dead of night. She hated speaking about that terrible occasion when cold blooded murder was done to her defenceless family. And the crazy thing about it all was that she could not speak Russian her medical adviser informed the Press ...

... acid. The Welch in Pennsylvania similarly look like the Welch in Cardiganshire, but are essentially Elks, psychologically speaking. We once urged a prominent Welch intellectual in New York, then editing The Commonweal, to persuade the Welch National Gorsedd ...

... THE ABOMINABLE CLUBMAN By Wyndham Robinson Set the wireless sloiver will you the chap speaks too fast Wyndham Robinson ...

... pain to conceal even that fact by choosing to write in cryptic cacophonies and obscure mutterings. To these Earl Wavell, speaking for Winchester as well as the Black Watch, has properly called our serious attention he would not have to scold the author ...

... breeches, a check shirt, an ancient silver-laced hat, and a few other oddments. By the 1840's a naval slaying-form, so to speak, had begun with a true uniform, highnecked, double-breasted, and swallow-tailed, with whiskers ad lib. We suggest that these ...