THE CALL TOR FIGHTING MEN. SLOW RESPONSE IN LEEDS. STILL ROOM FOR MORE As the days pass and the battle

... way. In Ivceds, ©specially, remote from the seaboard, and, in view the scarcity of authentic news the operations tne Continent isolated from most the thrilling and inspiring factors which operate elsewhere, there has been a marked failure, to rise to the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1914
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BUYERS OF COTTON GOODS SHOW

... demand having run ring beams. Offers bundles for export have been rathor more plentiful, chiefly for India and the Continent. isolated transactions have been mentioned Egyptian counts. AMERICAN COTTON CROP. TOTAL BALES. GOOD RETURN TEXAS. (FROM A SPECIAL ...

The Criterion,

... attitude which our thief national daily recently expressed so well a time Channel fog with its bold English headline, The Continent Isolated. ' G. E. G ...

MANCHESTER TRADE

... been sold for Egypt and the Near East. Printing and Dyeing fabrics have l>een in request for South America and the Continent. Isolated sales have taken place in coloured goods for West Africa. Yarn quotations have continued steady. Spinners are insisting ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1933
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

In England Now

... so violent that the cross-Channel steamer service was suspended. he saw in an English newspaper this heading: The Continent Isolated. Gold from the Air air, unlike the sea, has no special words for its treasuretrove. So the gold ingots which fell from ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1935
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 547 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

A Yorkshireman’s New Comic

... And the whole history of England Is summed up in the famous headline Of the London Times TERRIBLE GALE IN THE CHANNEL; CONTINENT ISOLATED. That will often be quoted. WHEN I dipped into the Tale of an Old Soldier I was inclined think that ex-Sergeant Crutchlow ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Welsh Love England Too

... heavy storm which completely blocked traffic across the channel. One of the London newspapers had on its poster: “Ihe Continent Isolated.” (Laughter.) REPENTANCE? There are signs, however that the Saxon repenting in sackcloth and ashes lor having endowed ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1938
Newspaper: Lancaster Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

OTHER WELSH SOCIETIES

... heavy storm which completely blocked traffic across the channel. One of the London newspapers had on its poster: The Continent Isolated. (Laughter.) REPENTANCE? There are signs, however that the Saxon is repenting in sackcloth and ashes for having endowed ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1938
Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Echoes From Town

... i* Scots. But English insularity is a P {j One remembers the famous headlif I ®,/ year or two ago : “Thick Fog in the Continent Isolated.” ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1939
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SQUARE-HEAD MENTALITY

... that old chestnut, of pure English inspiration, about the alleged headings in the “Times” —“ Dense Fog in the Channel —Continent Isolated for Three Days.” In his laborious efforts to explain the joke the narrator completely overlaid the point. Which reminds ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Letter From ...: Red Cross News

... what he thinks about the war. His sublime I don't; I didn't start it,' 1 on a par with the apocryphal London headline Continent isolated by fog. SporJng Items Raymond Guest is now in the United States Navy, having been on the Reserve. Brother Winston, ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1406 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs