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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 

The Education Of Mr. Smith

... Smith Criticus THE girl Louisa and her small brother, Nuri, were of English-Polish parentage. The bloody onrush of the German armies swept them from their home in Poland, thence to England, later to the United States of America-- specifically upon the windy ...

Such a moving millionaire

... himself alone who move le to pity. M. Montand is no Ad but he is a superb artist of i lense charm and it's my bet th every woman who sees him in hi test role will yearn to comfort 1 i (without a single thought c mink in the offing, either). Jean-Ma; Clement ...

Advertisements

... treats for the kiddies The Church Army will see that Chrisii nas is really Christmas for thousand jf needy families, lonely old peopki tomeless men and women, etc. hv iistributing Christmas Parcels. (The Church Army buys wholesale-- this neans MORE Parcels ...

A HIGH PRICE TO PAY FOR LA GLOIRE

... The island boys who have never left the plot of land where they were born are not averse to travel and Petit Pierre was raring to go! That maimed right hand, however, was not good enough for the army. He stayed Pri scilla in Paris at home and became ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 985 | Page: 20, 21 | Tags: Illustrations 

VOICE OF THE EMPIRE BUILDERS

... her power and also, making it an extra ordinary event, going to war out of idealism. In that war, England's old professional army, who had so long fought on the Empire's frontiers, was wiped out, machine-gunned, gassed and buried in the slaughter of 1915 ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1161 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

Early Birds

... regarded as a very minor service, ancillary to the Army and Navy, have seen that service gain its independence, and develop into a major war- winning factor, capable of almost unlimited effort over the land and sea. Sir Philip seems always to have had the ...

Roundabout

... newest women's foundation, New Hall, a term ago, a woman don drove me to lunch in a roaring Bentley half as old as my house, and twice as big. PAT SMYTHE is recognized as the world's greatest woman rider, showing herself more than equal to men in a field ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1574 | Page: 18, 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

Roundabout

... astonished to read that anybody should consider it notable to commemorate what must be classed as the biggest bungle the British Army has ever achieved in a long history. The host's ancestor, Lord Cardigan, was a fantastic man, a thorough mix-up of pride, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1407 | Page: 36, 37 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

Hope for Humans

... steadily fulfilling hope and sustaining belief. rr^HEY had begun their journey on April 28th. On July 30th they saw land the island of Puka-puka. Land An island We devoured it greedily with pur eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1955 | Page: 36, 37, 50 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

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: 52, 53, 54, 66, 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Very Pattern of a Queen

... kings; but now we have only time to think about a young Queen, who has eclipsed all others in the history of this, or any other, land. Let us cast our minds back a bit and see whether we can discover one who is even within hailing distance of she whom it has ...