Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. You can review your Bookmarks in the Saved area. *
* We take your privacy seriously. Bookmarks and notes are personal to you and are not public.
... 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 ...
... lecture upon our insular insolence illustrated by the ancient story of the newspaper headlines, “Dense Fog in Channel: Continent Isolated for Three Days.” The egregious ass who compiled that particular broadecast was unconscious of the fact that this is ...
... 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, ...
... cereal stocks were depleted by the end of the 1940-41 season. This is particularly serious, it is indicated, a* the Continent, isolated from world trade, can only sustain its population by depending on its own milk and meat production. During the autumn ...
... which meant that he had to give up three dayA for one talk. Instancing this insularity, he quoted the headline. The Continent Isolated, which appeared in a leading newspaper ,when the cross-Channel services were stopped in the Winter of 1929. Istimi ...
... British insularity ofthought: a certain newspaper's headlines once proclaimed : Fog in Straits of Dover More - The Continent Isolated. More seriously, yet as a sciolist rushing in where the academic taxonomist might fear to tread, might I sugge t that ...
... (Those were the days when a newspaper could, without seeing any joke, put out the contents bill, FOG IN CHANNEL: CONTINENT ISOLATED.) The aeroplane has hastened the process. A Channel crossing is no longer two hours of sea- Says IVOR THOMAS LABOUR ...
... De M ontfort Hall support of Uno someone work it and help immensely on old Times which remembered “ Gales the Channel Continent Isolated Poor Continent! as Miss Courtney remarked but sort pointer which up the complacency Miss Warner course led with the ...
... ew k a e n y s w re n a nte y d w t a o n; r e e l m w atn s justified? A writer in The New, cut off in their great continent isolated Statesman, discussing the present l between the Atlantic and the Pacific economic crisis, states: ', lf we a w n o d ...
... Africa) of migrant birds that determine their spring arrival here. Can it, be that spring is also early on that other Continent? . Isolated instances often do occur of cuckoos being heard in early months and then disappearing entirely until the proper ...
... fellow put up the heading Elisha Eacon nor like the day when there was a big storm in the Channel and the heading read Continent Isolated but you never can tell. There are snags, of course. I read the leader and got myself involved at lunch in a dull wrangle ...
... gave as example a national paper's headlines after a storm in the English Channel— Great storm In the Channel. The Continent, 'isolated ++ Last of Spencer brothers THE death yesterday of Mr. Herbert Spencer, at Cheshunt. Hertfordshire. ends a chapter ...