... 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 ...

... Layton had just turned to take his teacup from his hostess's hand. He kept his head bent, and very deliberately selected a piece of cake. I watched his hand. It shook a very little but when he looked up and faced us he was able to smile quietly and quite naturally ...

... that its philosophical conclusions will bear comfort to many as well as excitement and argu ment to a few. I remember a piece in Cakes and Ale in which it is stated beauty is that which satisfies the aesthetic instinct. But who wants to be satisfied It ...

... 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 ...

... the risk of being accused of shooting a line, almost any one of these chaps would say that each one of his jobs was a piece of cake, but, with the development of aerial warfare, seasoned as they are by practical experience, none of them would be able ...

... 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 ...

... coincidences which are rarer than one might think two books with almost the same title, published at almost the same time. PIECE OF CAKE (Peter Davies. 15s.) is Mr. Geoff Taylor's book about his last raid as a bomber pilot over Germany, his imprisonment and ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...