... day on which I write this tribute to Sir Winston Churchill I happened to go and listen to my old friend Lord David Cecil speaking at one of the excellent lunch-time meetings of the Conservative Political Centre. I am not, myself, normally one for fork ...

... London area, I think he has far exceeded his right. When he can carry the existing passengers, he will have some right to speak. When I stay with friends in a London suburb, I have either to get a lift to the station or face half-an-hour's wait for a ...

... inside its great wall. For 300 years it has stood since Boudicca's terrible raid. Yet now this young officer of the town guard speaks of danger from the east and from the north. As though one could be certain of nothing. Yet, surely, it looks as if it would ...

... whom we had cards we could at least return the gesture next year. What we failed to notice was that we were doomed, so to speak, to live perpetually a year in the red since one cannot decently go round telling friends in January that they are down for ...

... foreigners, dear. Mrs. Jennings gave a dogged British sniff. All those dreadful counts and things. Just make sure you don't speak to anyone from behind the Iron Curtain. There was that poor innocent girl whisked away over the border only the other day ...

... could not hope to keep up, retired into their vague and comfortable back grounds, leaving the young couple holding, so to speak, the bills. At the end of six months, Susan suggested that she might go back to work, which brought about the first of Jim's ...

... isn't over the women tycoons dream about while doodling on their blotting pads. And what is a tycoon A dyspeptic person speaking into four telephones simultaneously, says one in this brusque and breezy tale who would prefer to be called a merchant prince ...

... adding Moliere to provide a summing-up. Sooner or later, I fear, it will occur to the Council to send Mr. Brock to China to speak on the subject of fireworks, and Dr. Ludwig Koch seems likely to be approached at any moment to do a world tour on the delicate ...

... stay at The Club House, the Guest House or the attractive Dolphin Inn, and during the run of your leave you can have, so to speak, the freedom of the borough, disporting yourself in the sea, on the full-size iS-hole golf course, utilising the tennis courts ...

... Wigtownshire. Here, Mr. and Mrs. Gillies give one the widest choice of freshly caught and cooked fish. But where, generally speaking, are the soles, the plaice, the dabs and the whiting At one time the latter used to be served with their tails in their mouths ...

... television set, rang. Charles turned on the light, said Don't move, anybody, and sprang to answer it. Yes yes Doctor Browne speaking. Poor Henrietta what a shame Take an aspirin and lie down no, it 's not in the least serious you are suffering from pos ...

... into a rather poor joke, a really pretty hat that suits you is the most exciting and heart- lifting thing that, sartorially speaking, can happen to anyone. It raises a rather ordinary outfit right up into the model class and caps a perfect dress or suit ...