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The Sketch

NATIVE GUIDE TO NORTH BRITAIN

... exceptions to this rule. A writer in the New Yorker recently reported that when he (greatly daring) raised the point with the woman guide who was showing him round John? Knox's house in Edinburgh, and referring to Scotch history and Scotch customs,' she sharply ...

Published: Wednesday 24 August 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1793 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

JULIET LIVED HERE --OR DID SHE?

... where there were large notices prohibiting bicycles, the first woman I saw wheeled her bicycle unhesitatingly inside. I must say she went straight to the Confessional. Day-dream In the land of dolce far niente it is not surprising that one should day-dream ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1694 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

Our Motley Notes

... vast and priceless collection of pictures and historical documents. This is the little map of San Domingo (where Columbus landed, and which, to his dying day, he thought was part of India) which he drew himself. It is about the size of a page of The Sketch ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1859 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

LUDMILLA SAINT LUDMILLA AND THE WEAKLING

... continue to do so. I ask you only to think of the yearning and heartache that is the lot of the poor and not-so-favoured woman, as she stares through the glass of the shop-window at a gay or appealing Easter hat, or a particularly fetching frock, or ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9578 | Page: 46 | Tags: Illustrations