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... the little lady, placidly, giving her husband a violent, unobserved kick in the back. Tom, dear, won't you have a little piece of cake The German was anxiously asking The Broker about what he persisted in calling Ganatian Pazifique. Canadas are all right ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2100 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

At the Sign of the Times

... Master George Yes, thank you nur-e, I've beet a good boy, and I've had three oranges, and five ice-creams, and th ee pieces of cake, and four glass s of lemonade, and an apple, aid two helpings of pudding-- (Sighs). Put me to bed, and whatever you do ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1401 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER WEEK BY WEEK: Signs and Portents

... the struggle is proved by a little incident which took place at Clifton the other day, when a tramp cast away in scorn a piece of cake bestowed upon him at somebody's back door. Neither is this another illustration of an over worked jest, for the tramp found ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1586 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... son. Last night there were three pieces of cake in the pantry, and now there is only one. I would like to know how that happened. Well, said (he young hopeful, it was so dark in there that I didn't see the other piece. The hall was packed, and the speaker ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1929
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 743 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

DOGS OF THE DAY: Patous from the Pyrenees

... take food from unauthorised persons. One day a confectioner offered our own Pyrenean, that we had for thirteen years, a piece of cake, of which she was very fond. Her only response was to growl and to look inquiringly at her mistress. When she was assured ...

SLAVES and OTHERS in WESTERN EUROPEAN FACTORIES

... yes but R.A.F. crews who are coming again and often will, while enjoying their well-deserved piece of cake, be the first to appreciate the bitter daily cake of so many of those they have to bomb. But get away from these factories, exhorts Colonel Britton ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1914 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WAY OF THE WAR: Secrecy

... defeat of the Eastern end of the Axis. Certain circles in the United States believe 1 that the defeat of Japan will be a piece of cake and they want to have it all to them selves. They think they can do it without i British help, and that it will be more ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1814 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

GREAT DAYS AHEAD FOR CIVIL AVIATION: The Part that the British Overseas Airways Corporation is Playing To-day ..

... civilian pilot is no easy matter. Wing- Commanders and Squadron-Leaders who have flown to Berlin, bombed it through intense flak, and returned home without interception by enemy fighters may imagine that to be a civilian pilot is a piece of cake, but this is ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1647 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

The Shadow of a Dream

... got. It was translated straight from the French. Oh,, but that one does not do. When one reached out and grabbed at a piece of cake when one came to meals with unwashed hands when one answered rudely and later on, when one came in at midnight after having ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3722 | Page: 53 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... grandads returned alive from such a visit and were rescued in the sea. If primitive man can do it, surely it will be a piece of cake for homo sapiens 1961, who, physically and mentally, runs faster, jumps higher and boasts more than any of the earlier ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2795 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... Butler said or intended to say or didn't say, any suspected kind word about Spain hands to the Socialists on a plate a piece of cake, a rare opportunity for a united front in hypo critical criticism. CRIME, CANING AND STATISTICS. The restoration of corporal ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1759 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... impatient. It includes the hopeful, the easy-minded, who still consider that taking out and over-loading at the week end a more or less home-made car or one with canvas tyres and brakes tied up with string, is a piece of cake. A classification of all those holiday ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1935 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs