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IN THE GREAT WORLD: SIR JOHN HENNIKER HEATON

... and I am glad to think that I am the first, though I certainly shall not be the last, to congratulate you. There was no April fooling about that, and Sir John at once sat down before a sheet of the familiar House of Com mons quarto note-paper to make a ...

Published: Wednesday 18 March 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1211 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Our Riviera Letter

... in the evenings though, as we've had a dinner and dance every night. Beginning with the big Circle Nautique Fancy Dress April Fools party, where everyone found their knives and forks stitched to the tablecloth when they tried to use them, and champagne ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1923
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1243 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

REFLECTIONS ON THE SCOTS LANGUAGE

... move with the shuffling motion peculiar to flat feet; to thole is to endure suffering with patience and fortitude, whilst April Fool's Day is Hunt- the-Gowk, in itself quite illuminative. J We have again, happily, morning rolls in England, but in Scotland ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1919
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 984 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

ARE THESE SHOCKING BOOKS?

... some lighter entertain ment, and here there is considerable choice. First and foremost must come Mr. Compton Mackenzie's April Fools (Cassell, 7 s. 6 d.). This is really a sequel to Poor Relations, but you need not have read that amusing affair to enjoy ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1296 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY of THE WORLD

... But Mars is fatal to migra tion; indeed, the embargo on travelling has increased since the Armistice. To-day (which is April Fool's Day) the cost of a French passport to enter France is raised from 8s. to 20s., while the German charge is 30s. The Italian ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1068 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

YOGO HAMA ON AN APRIL TERROR

... teless to entirely fall into him. Ha, ha, I chucker, there are not any cataclysmics in my sleeve but this week are St. April's Fool Day I O yes, this has made you to be a very big mirthing-stock 1 Permit I should present you the April Dunce's cap for ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1925
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1272 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

Cutting the red tape

... I Cutting the red tape Dudley Noble, Beginning appropriately on April Fool's Day, one of the last vestiges of red tape con cerned with taking a car across to the Continent will vanish. This is the form known as the 29.C(Sales) which has to be filled ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1965
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1448 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

The Gangsters Gave A Party

... he loved Piero also. He bade his wife tell him so. He loved Piero dearly. Aen-cMinutc Stories THE UNCERTAIN GLORY OF AN APRIL FOOL'S DAY A more than remarkable study of the latest addition to the Ruritanian air-fleet, the super combined-twelve-bomber ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1771 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Motor Dicta: Coming Events: Sporting Trials

... on March 29 and 30, in time to let the competitors get back to Brooklands for the first real race meeting of the year on April Fools' Day. The Easter Bank Holiday meeting at Brook lands is always the most interesting and successful in the year, and it is ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1666 | Page: 72 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... on snowfields and with only a token rum-ration. White flannels under such conditions make cricketers flannelled fools (April fools) indeed, and an issue of red flannel seems desirable if the batsman is not to be hustled out by unfair devices (on the part ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2089 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The Gangsters Gave A Party

... he loved Piero also. He bade his wife tell him so. He loved Piero dearly. Aen-cMinutc Stories THE UNCERTAIN GLORY OF AN APRIL FOOL'S DAY A more than remarkable study of the latest addition to the Ruritanian air-fleet, the super combined-twelve-bomber ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1771 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter: MR. BEVAN PRESENTS HIS NEW BOOK

... by our own activities in March), stoats and rabbits, and an occasional hare. But snowdrifts and icy gales in April make April fools of us all and cheat us of the hopes and keen delights of the first signs of spring to which we look forward through all ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2317 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs