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WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... of each seasdn on the Riviera, says my sophisticated spy. a rumour always starts that sunburn has gone out, and that the fashionable women have decided to stay white But this is always just a rumour, for to preserve a lily-and- roses complexion would ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1897 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: CANADA'S NEW OIL-FIELD: HOW TO ARRANGE TYRES: AN UNRECORDED SPY HUNT; An Important ..

... FIELD HOW TO ARRANGE TYRES AN UNRECORDED SPY HUNT. An Important Discovery. Very welcome from every point of view is the news that an immense oil-field has been dis covered in Northern Alberta, Canada. Rumours, it is true, have been flying about for some ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1059 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... and Walery and Topical. Lieutenant-Colonel George Cornwallis-West has publicly denied the persistent rumours that he has been 4 shot in England as a spy.' He has commanded since September one of the battalions of the Royal Naval Division which fought at ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 575 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Phillip in Particular: I.--The Tab=Exterminator

... fact, said Erkenwald with guile. That 's our spy lock-up. And a nasty place too, admitted Phillip. Do you have many spies I hope not, said Erkenwald fervently. That is, I hope not for the sake of the spy. He will have a loathly time in that dug out ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2931 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS

... f CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS |Q THE greatly exaggerated report that Colonel George Corn wallis-West had been shot as a spy began with the milder but still utterly ridiculous story that he had been confined in the Tower. At any rate, he was there in good ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1092 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS

... wicked rumour in the house that the manuscript had been discovered in the ruins of the old dust- hole when it was being con verted into the beautiful new- theatre, and that it had been sent in during the vogue of Diplomacy. Of course the rumour was a ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1136 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS·CORONETS·COURTIERS

... HAD the rumour been true that Samson at Dalila was given at Covent Garden only at the request of Queen Alexandra-- who, it is said, par ticularly desired to hear the opera, hitherto forbidden because of the Biblical origin of its story-- it might have ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 762 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... distinctly those days when we were cooped up at night behind breastworks of mealie-bags, and when every day brought rumour after rumour of invading hordes passing over the Natal border, or advancing to sweep away our ill- furnished little gathering of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1162 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... Ensrland, and particu larly prides himself on perfectly speaking her tongue, even to the pitch of punning, exclaimed on hearing a rumour of this transaction, The King is melt on Fisher! Well, it is a royal softness that many an English artist would rather p ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 897 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

HEARD IN THE GREEN-ROOM

... the stage severely alone, in spite of the great success he and Mr. Louis N. Parker made with Beauty and the Barge. These rumours are, happily, quite unfounded, for Mr. Jacobs intends to return to dramatic work at some time in the future. The playgoing ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1011 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... nating between peaks of hope and valleys of doubt. London's moods have been now grave, now gay, according to each breeze of rumour from horses'-- and other-- mouths. But, underlying it all, there has been a constant calmness of temperature, very different ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1325 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... answering questions, arranging cars to pick up voters, answering the telephone while munching a sandwich, talking to crackpots, spying on the opposition, preparing surveys of the voting and then checking up so as to make sure that every known or suspected supporter ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1640 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs