... correcting me on this point, so I hasten to add that I have been given to understand this by a most learned Scot is, strictly speaking, the name of the cake which is given to the children who beg for gifts on the morning of New Year's Eve. I have never myself ...

... on the next two pages. MR. W. T. A. RUNDLE, who has made an intensive study of the problems of manure disposal, will be speaking on the subject at the Oxford Farming Conference this afternoon. AT CROWE FARM, Ringwood, the dunging passages of the pig- ...

... rounded on her with bristling moustache and a cascade of corrosive expletives. Sir, how dare you speak to me like that, she blazed. Madam, how dare you speak to me at all exploded our exquisite. But let 's away from the mud and the grey skies. There 's ...

... growth and for this reason critical annual rainfall averages of 30 ins. and 20 ins. have been marked on the map. Broadly speaking, a rainfall of 30 ins. or over permits the use of the plough, of rotational farming and mixed farming, and above 20 ins. ...

... fascinating factual account of how London teemed with streetwalkers before the historic Butler reforms. Good reading for French-speaking homo sexuals, too Bundle of British Rail ways time-tables, mar vellously ingenious every arrival and departure carefully ...

... beater, added to the day's pleasure until someone tried to argue that the beater, being unlicensed and self-employed, so to speak, was commit ting a technical offence. It is an interest ing point and rather too near the bone Still, anyone who owns a licence ...

... mixed up in a criminal (or indeed civil) trial, for this duty often ends in a serious dislocation of our business, not to speak of loss of our recreational hours. There may be hours spent in a police station and visits from detectives. The proceedings ...

... beautiful, but it has great dignity even in its poorest quarters. And so have its people. I do not know Glasgow well enough to speak with any authority, but the little exploration I have done (mostly under the guidance of a taxi-driver friend) has made me ...

... contain all the kinds of Anglicanism there are, are further sub divided into many more categories. I (and it is Rose Macaulay speaking again), I, too, am high, even extreme, but somewhat lapsed, which is a sound position, as you belong to the best section ...

... her in tune with the age is an ability to talk vitally and amusingly in several languages. She speaks English to her husband, Greek to her children (they speak English to their father), French to the chauffeur, and German to the nannie and the cook. Of ...

... dential address at this year's f, annual meeting of the Association in Cardiff, starting on August 31. I He said he would speak on 4 the two aspects of science its effects in altering man's environ- ment and in affecting his thoughts. A JAMAICAN LEADER ...

... complex a problem-continent as Africa to-day. He stressed that his visit was, firstly, a fact-finding tour to enable him to speak with greater authority on problems which had certainly to be faced within the next two or three years, and he stressed his ...