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The Letters of Evelyn

... The Letters of Evelyn. Grosvenor Square, W. 1. DEAREST,-- April 1. All Fools' Day. And how many different kinds of April fool jokes are in store for us, I wonder? One at least I should think we can safely bank on, and that's one from the Meteorological ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1925
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2110 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES

... in the nursery.' Well The mother ran upstairs, but the little girl went after her and caughtherup. Oh, Mummy, you a re an April fool,' she said, delightedly. 'It's only daddy!' Our Stroller agreed with his alter ego that he had heard something like it ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1958 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

WELL I NEVER!

... and then chuckled. 1 1 was one o'clock and deep down somewhere from the inside of his works came the faint est whisper April fool Constable Higgins came to with a start and rubbed his eyes, Well I'll be blowed! he gasped. AT THE STAFF COLLEGE DRAG ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1887 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

HOUSE AUCTIONS, &o

... COBNHILL MAGAZINE foi APRIL. CONFIDENTIAL Ao'ENTS COURT ROYAL. By the Author of John Herring Mehalah &c. Chap. XLIX.-- An April Foo'l S^tp e Keseue- Chap. LI. Th° Flvine- Z,SL£TLtL--° UlC strain su!STB0SWELL- ssr (mustratea-) London: Smith, Eldbr, and Co ...

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: A Quite Delightful Autobiography

... this anecdote quoted by Clare Delius from her own experience proves. Once, on April ist, Fred challenged me to make papa an April Fool, and I, greatly daring in the schoolroom accepted the challenge. I went down into the morning-room where he was sitting ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1935
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2200 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... A London Newsletter Kremlin's April Fool?-- The Kremlin has announced the unilateral renunciation of nuclear tests. It can well afford the gesture. Such an announcement is as superbly telling a move in the everlasting game of chess as ever was made. And ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2604 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

Rapier on Racing

... mingled, Captain T. McDougall's Glanmore won the Molyneux Steeplechase. Among the fallen horses seen in our picture are April Fool and Curtain Raiser. ...

Rapier on Racing

... ride he had on resuming, which was at Windsor on Wednesday of last week, he was brought down on a horse, ironically named April Fool, the outcome being a broken leg. Certainly our cross-country riders may be said to earn their fees. LAST week's racing does ...

The Passing Hour: OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US; HORSES TO BRING YOU MONEY; SIR OSWALD AND THE PLEBIAN TOUCH; THE ..

... to have made plans to go to Le Touquet. The arrangements made for members of Nash's Club, though, sound almost like an April fool. They sound far too good to be true. If you belong to the vigorous young successor of Masters you can, for the payment ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2792 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... once more to England but just too late for insertion in the morning news of All Fools' Day. Was it designed as a Teuton April Fool? We and France had been waiting very anxiously, and Hitler's 99 per cent, triumph was already stale news. However, the surprise ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3219 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... dry but piercingly cold. April's girlish laugh ter is an old cynic-hag's grin, and Browning's picture is nothing but an April fool. I read in my local paper this week under Twenty-five years ago: The weather this week has been more bitter than any ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3187 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs