... still more surprised that he passed out as an officer. Yet a few months later he was in command of a tank landing craft, and by the time of the landings at Salerno and Anzio, he vas, however lightheartedly he may describe his own shortcomings, obviously a ...

... religious processions, poodles, 5 geraniums, balls, bacon, baboons, books and whatnot. Land of Honey and Roses Some centuries earlier, Cicero called it a land of honey and roses (Malta, or Melita, means honey), and now the enthusiastic travel blurbs ...

... consequence of all this, I notice, is a certain confusion about what Bernard Shaw actually wrote. I have already heard one woman enthuse about the wonderful song that has been written round the sentence Eliza Doolittle has to say as a test of her newly- ...

... Edward VII. On the love affairs of His Royal Highness, Mr. Dudley is very frank. So far as any aspirations the women (any woman) might have to the Marlborough House charmed circle, if she played hard to get too firmly, or didn't go out of her way to please ...

... that, I remember talking before this last war to the Chief of Staff of General Von Below, who commanded the German- Austrian armies which inflicted on the Italians the appalling defeat of Caporetto. He told me that for sheer individual heroism he had never ...