... these problems a bit more seriously. Another thing that depresses me is that I'm looking for a flat at the moment; no one I speak to seems even to have heard of anyone who has heard of anyone who hasn't had to put down £5,000 for three rooms in a basement ...

... not for the convenience of the customer, as might by the innc ent be supposed, but to make absolutely certain that one never speaks to .e same person twice. They do this, of course, to ensure the complete nun lement and confusion of the customer. Estate ...

... agreed to buy a ready-made overcoat which had been heavily reduced. While the assistant was wrapping it up I saw the manager speaking to him. The assistant came over to me and said he was sorry but there had been a mistake. The coat had been wrongly marked ...

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... forest, he didn't talk much about it. He sat in the Council of Beasts, and let his Experience, his Achievements and his Wisdom speak for themselves. At a hint of praise he would shake his mane modestly and stalk back home, where his wife took him pleasantly ...

... office with the charming phrase, Is master on seat?. But pidgin-English is on the way out and the educated West African now speaks English with a musical correctness which can put many of us to shame. And, in any case, the West African usually learns the ...

... on the walls. One thing is certain all Englishmen are in terror of confusing the clans' tartans. As well might an outsider speak of Pop to an old Harrovian. But tartan is not so antique, nor is it subject to such rigid rights as the Scots so confidently ...

... Speaking as a Scot abroad by IVOR BROWN THE BEST SIGN of affection for a country is that you stay in it or, if you can't stay, that you return as often as you can. Nothing is proved by dressing up and shouting. I have an American friend, with only one ...

... once there is plenty of room. Fu To t, the proprietor, was for many ars crew superintendent on Shell t kers. Being able to speak eight t nese dialects he was highly succes d. Fror Kensington to 61 Edgware Road the lotus house, a smart and 1; ;e restaurant ...

... mind. The family misery, shot through with love and hatred and cruelty and kindliness, comes over to us in the raw, so to speak, and we are left to make our own comment, which may be that the play wright's philosophy, generally so contemp tuous of people ...

... since a boy of fourteen when he started as apprentice chef at the Piccadilly Hotel joining Quag's in 1935. As he says, he speaks English like a Cockney. This was the second time I have visited Quag's in the last four months, the previous occasion being ...

... Speaking as a woman driver. WHY CAN'T THE MANUFACTURERS CATER FOR THEIR WOMEN CUSTOMERS' NEEDS BY FITTING A FEW OF THESE SPECIAL GADGETS? asks Mary Macpherson YEAR AFTER YEAR the motor-car industry proudly presents new models with new gadgets that will ...