... Expensive though they are, they do enable us to make more of those simple dishes we make up from our heads, out of nothing, so to speak. Coming in just now are South African peaches, apricots and plums. As the month advances, the present small quantities will ...

... less well supported than he deserves. None of the three town ladies appear to relish the outrageous lines they are given to speak. Miss Diana Churchill is especially eager to skip rapidly through passages that must be dwelled on if they are to show their ...

... but to Napoleon the little king, who had held court in a five-roomed villa, tweaked Elban ears, and talked to his Italian-speaking subjects in the not unfamiliar accent of Corsica, which lies some thirty miles or so to the west. This is not like France ...

... Sanderson Son Ltd. ask first for VAT 69. I Scotch whisky Joy Tomorrow they may see the sun in many different lands, hear voices speak with many different tongues. But whether taking their leave of England or arriving in distant places, those who appreciate ...

... foreign innovation, in the way that a British working- man might look askance at bouillabaisse Perhaps there are English-speaking tits and robins, as it were, and there are Central Europeans, and their respective cuisines vary according to their country ...

... the Royal Air Force blazer I was wearing, said, You must be in the King's service? Well, yes: I suppose, in a manner of speaking, I am. And she leaned forward, very earnestly and confidentially, and whispered, How is he? On this same railway journey ...

... rather chilly Burgundy and all helped out with hard-boiled eggs, Stilton cheese and biscuits. It is no longer obligatory I speak here of the moral kind of obligation to join the Royal Horse Guards to wear cavalry twill. But to be mistaken for genuine county ...

... made by an ingenious friend, and before the Lancet or the British Medical Journal gets wind of this new disease. The friend I speak of had been the victim of sneezing fits, and it occurred to him, when they persisted beyond the lifetime of a common cold, ...

... is what you are known by. If you can get people to call you Marilyn, well done. If they still call you Ermyntrude, don't speak to them. ...

... the cinema page of an evening paper, remained on the platform. Two women sat inside, near the door. They in their turn were speaking of !a ravissante petite princesse Anne and le beau prince Charles', they admired the wisdom of sending him to school and ...

... wish we could dredge up some at a penny apiece, as the Bordelais do. I have a fondness for towns that do not expect me, so to speak that go about their own business, which is not primarily to look after tourists, though they may do so incident ally, and very ...

... recent glance through some ancien. C. GORDON GLOVER who, as he proudly proclaims, is president of his own village cricket club, speaks with authority on an aspect of The Game which the press rarely touches Illustrations by F. W. Capon score books of the club ...