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NO APRIL FOOL

... NO APRIL FOOL PRIL is a frustrating time for cooks. Even though the weather is cheering ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16 | Page: 118 | Tags: none

Water Symphony FISHING WITH A CAMERA H. E. TOWNER COSTON

... Excellent material, admirably presented, can be read with much profit . .. brilliant and original. 9/- net. The Field * April Fool A NOVEL BY GEORGE RODERICK Author of ·· • Gimcrack An exciting story to those who are interested in racing it will ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1949
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

been acting for a well known connoisseur, and Mr. Lionel Crichton. The bidding was \'ery keen ; but the latter

... your shoe's unbuckled,' and the moment the accosted individual looked towards his feet the informant would cry: ' Ah, you April fool! ' Twenty years ago, when buckles were wholly disused, the urchin-cry was: ' ir, your shoe's untied.' NO\\·, when neither ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1914
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 524 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

March roll-April fool

... March roll-April fool. This is a saying that is confined to areas of heavy clay arable land, and in the e days of tractors has even more point than before. How often after a few days of drying March wind is the you ng and inexperienced heavy-land farmer ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1945
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

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... lunatic festival with which the month begins. And it is all very well for our children to tell us that we cannot be made an April Fool after 12 o'clock on the first; Budget Day brings to most of us the faint suspicion that someone has forgotten the rules ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1023 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

SHY FLOWER OF THE SWAMP

... would tand as a ~lembe r of Parliament. He may have been unwi e to antagoni e new paper editor by revealing this to be an April Fool. In fact, tlle propo al bring into focu the que tion that lurks like an all.igator beneath bayou. I prote t of the eco-warrior ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 557 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

D emolished but reconstructed

... appearance. \Nill someone now feel in pired to recreate Chart Park in bricks and mortar? IT sounds like an architectural April Fool: a recently published book which describes in detail a house demolished in 181 4 of which no visual records survive. Yet ...

Published: Thursday 17 June 1993
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1434 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LiFE

... spring up from behind the hedge which they had believed to shelter them. April fools, haw, haw! I cl' 'low ye be a proper pair on 'em ! April fool, H annah ! ye an April fool ! \i\T e took in the pair o' ye nicely ! This was the chorus which greeted ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1906
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2686 | Page: 60 | Tags: none

together with extremely long chains of beads, pearls or other gems

... directly beneath has an entirely different aspect. She wears a Folly dress, a species of carnival costume; or, if you prefer, April Fool. It would look well carried out in pale yellow, blue and white ; the skirt of yellow ninon would have a tunic cf pale blue ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1912
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2131 | Page: 159 | Tags: none

ONE OF THE WORLD'S COSTLIEST WATCHES IS MADE

... that he sent his letter of resignation to Sarah Duchess of Marlborough. Nicholas Hawksmoor withdrew at the 19th-CENTURY APRIL FOOL SIR,-! have a tortoiseshell comb, measuring 2in by !in, folded in a piece of paper bearing the date April 1, 1844. This ...

Published: Thursday 16 June 1977
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2221 | Page: 92 | Tags: none

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... monarch? 12 Name two ofßritain's 0 Which colour offox did hunts compete / for at Hambleden? Which public school did our April Fool article claim was the origin for text messaging? oldest food dynasties. 1 c!J Who won when we played the Eton Game? valley ...

Published: Thursday 30 December 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1000 | Page: 56 | Tags: none