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EXPERIENCE

... to thought-read. I feel like a slave and am wicked. I hide in the washroom and discuss the family with the wash-maid, who speaks French. I discovered the girls are princesses in their own country. Their manners aren't so exotic. One looked at me yesterday ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 84 | Tags: Illustrations 

Blue Moon Heron

... chrysanthemums on the floor by her feet. The boys were summoned to say Thank you, Aunt Jane, for the books. And Lucinda was speaking vaguely of another weekend and please plan to stay the night. Yes, yes, yes, she said to everything and raced the engine ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3792 | Page: 82 | Tags: Illustrations 

It's all good

... possible kidnappers. For the same reason she was not allowed to take the baby for walks. Being half- American, Maman insisted on speaking English, and a reversal of the family fortunes (just as my sister arrived on the scene) meant she was penniless for long ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 705 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

WAYS and MEANS

... not extracted from this allowance; vouchers for meals on trains should be bought at the same time as your tickets. Roughly speaking, second class rail and boat fares work out at about the same price as tourist air fares. Snacks and light meals are mostly ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 626 | Page: 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LAST DANCE

... by any chance? She shook her head. The music stopped again abruptly. All the lights came on hard and bright. Someone was speaking over the loud speakers Seventeen, seventeen All around them couples lifted faces, white in the light, staring up, laughing ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1314 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE CABBY AND THE COMMON GOOD

... Okinawan inter preter, who acts as compere, and in the Tokyo production he made his speeches bilingually. So the English- speaking audience had its laugh, and a moment later the Japanese echoed it when the translation came. This, of course, makes for a ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2182 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

MORE THAN DIAMONDS

... (sneering) So Goodheart quietly A call for his Mom. (Silence. 29 bridge-specialists furtively wipe their eyes. The Chairman speaks up uneasily.) Chairman Well, gentlemen, I guess we all know Brother Goodheart's crazy on his Mom. Goodheart impressively Whose ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 784 | Page: 48 | Tags: Illustrations 

Greetings in Season

... end-of-year presents. f pr(Jyij FINLAND T T auskaa JoulualP-AFpippy Christmas JL J. says Finnish boy to Einni^li girl. The Finns speak a n o n -;1 ri ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1335 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations 

Word in Season

... Michael would both drop in to help. The news had shaken Michael. He had removed his crown with quiet dignity and, while not speaking the whole of his mind, had conveyed with a certain degree of force that wild horses would not drag him to that chichi annex ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1913 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

When We Invented Kiss In The Ring: The Mistletoe Tradition was one of many excuses

... name the merriest minx in the room and announce that there was four-and-sixpence to pay on the package. To-day but let 's not speak of to-day. The robust free-for-all in the squire's mansion has degenerated into a decorous frolic over the teacups by the staffs ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1334 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

Augustus Hare's Tales of the Supernatural: A Selection from the Famous Story-teller's Macabre Repertoire

... his poor-club, which he was taking back with him, when he became aware of another horseman riding by his side, who did not speak, and who, at a certain point of the road beyond a hollow, disappeared. In that hollow highwaymen, who knew the clergy man was ...

Published: Friday 11 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4424 | Page: 53 | Tags: Illustrations