... our listening grandchildren, until we publish all our tea-party twaddle in two large green volumes under the title The Second World War: Personal Experiences. And then there will be another Colonel in the field. But it hasn't been (historically) a bad ...

... heroine in the Provincial Lady series she is often in a position to indulge this pleasure, and never more so than when the second world war comes, and she hastens off to London to offer her services to her country. The fact that nobody seems to want them only ...

... conventional opinions and a strong objection to being known as the son of a gardener who was shot for cowardice and when the second World War comes, he welcomes it. Another illustration of the way Miss Goolden likes to avoid making life correspond with preconceived ...

... respondent. (She reminds him of the stewardess, he tells her, but tactfully.) Their romance, and their reactions to the second world war are presented with a shrewd mixture oj humour and propa gandist purpose by the same writing team that did the Ninotchka ...

... Davics's book of his experiences during his term in the Soviet capital, and the ferment of events which preceded the second World War. We give here parallel figures of this dramatic piece of history the chief personalities in real life, and their film ...

... Gary Cooper, in which he describes the Civil War as a kind of rehearsal, just- happening to take place in Spain, for the second World War, there is little indication what the fracas is all about. This may be politically tactful, but it is not always dramatically ...

... but I cannot help feeling that the dramatist, had he been alive to-day and approached the theme as an aftermath of the Second World War, not of the first, might have been tempted to write it for the screen, rather than for the stage. The thing is natural ...

... brief and much-regretted apostasy to Ashley Gardens, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes has always lived in that enchanted district. The Second World War drove her away from one house in Barton Street, but before it was over she had returned to another. In The Merry Wives ...

... back to the Chicago of a century ago, and Mr. Hodson's English Family being sketched against the background of the Second World War. Mr. Meeker leads us most persuasively into a world of crinolines and chimney-pot hats, in which Big Business is scarcely ...

... same room to hear the League of Nations declare that they could do nothing about Hitler's march into the Rhineland. The Second World War had begun. And now this room of memories was full of warmth, of faith, of human kindness and of hope. Hand in hand Elizabeth ...

... entertained somewhat improbably both Wilde and William Morris, who loses her husband in the Boer War and her son in the Second World War while she herself succumbs to a long, jagged splinter of glass in the London blitz. Miss Morgan's somewhat rococo style ...

... pygmies had struck at the giant, as pygmies, if there are enough of them, will always do. One of the casualties in the Second World War was human dignity. There was a time in the affairs of men when foreign ministers, no matter how agile their minds or ...