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Britannia and Eve

BECAUSE OF A WOMAN

... came to Vanico because of a woman. Curelle nodded approvingly. There is no better place to seek solace. I can appreciate your sorrow. Some time ago my wife left me. I am somewhat resigned now. I came here to find a woman, not get away from one, Edwards ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3444 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

July Reading by TREV

... much trouble over the corrupt sale of Army commissions? It is, and Mary Anne (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) is all about her. What lies, intrigues, bills, debts, quarrels, exposures, blackmail from a drunken husband What a woman I And what a peach possibly over-ripe ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1958 | Page: 77 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Civilized Eskimo

... a child result from the temporary union its support is a matter for the woman's husband or for the community. No less practical are the Eskimo's views on infanticide (where a woman gives birth on a long hunting trip it ma}' be necessary to abandon the ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2527 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Escape: Colonel Ellerton was always the perfect gentleman but years of experience had taught him the ..

... an explorer or a big-game hunter. There are not so many of Ellerton's sort left, for he belonged to the old order, and his army career began long before the day of ranker-officers. He could ride any horse, judge a bottle of port, and shoot a tiger. Always ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2056 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Story Of The Cross

... The Story Of The Cross By Frances Faure IT was a woman, the Empress Helena, who set out for the Holy Land in the year 325, with the full authority and blessing of the General Church Council to try and discover the remains of the true Cross, and she at ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1888 | Page: 78 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Strangers: A COMPLETE SHORT STORY

... mad, oh without doubt they were mad, said the village. They were not only mad, said old Pierre, they were dangerous. That woman with her flimsy summer frocks and her cropped hair The village girls were always going into Mulhouse and coming back to show ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3803 | Page: 66 | Tags: Illustrations 

Return of a Stranger

... once nearly run over >y an Army lorry, which, he asked the woman to^'. dmit, could have happened in peacetime, too. The .oman admitted that, and now he was back on the inn. It was a pity that admitting hadn't allayed he woman's fears. In the sitting-room ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1953
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2484 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

Queer Jobs In Freak Times

... to German artists designing the perfect transparent man as a mate for Lumena, the model transparent woman shown at Olympia last summer. The only woman men can see through cost £6,000 to make. Six and a quarter miles of wire, representing nerves and b ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2848 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

Harriet and the Hoyden

... Bixham first came to live in the old Rectory with her husband, one's way to building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land had seemed reasonably clear. There was no Mrs. Allen, nor even a Mrs. Sevington. There were instead a score of cottages spread ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3326 | Page: 79 | Tags: Illustrations 

Yes Miss Anders..

... ^fes, Mm Anders. 4 4 m i r 'His was a futile ecstasy of a foredoomed creation buoyed up by the smile of one woman, dashed by the frozen grey eyes of another m 1* by GLADYS SCHMITT HE got up into the coolness which hangs over the city like a false promise ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5443 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

This Shameful Age: This is an age when the phoney and the fake appear to dominate our lives

... termed indispensable artisans in a modern society. The verb to spook for to speak has been coined in Whitehall whose army of P.R.O.s was all cut out to provide the material of ghosts. Ministers haven't the time (or the wit?) to give us' of their ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1953
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2168 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations