... should have had to write to The Times to say how aw'fly annoying it was that people would say he'd been shot as a spy. 'Spose the rumour arose 'cos so little's been seen of him lately, though his sisters. Princess Pless and the Duchess of Westminster- ...

... to the infinite pain of his family bandied from mouth to mouth as reincarnated in the shape of a German spy and a commander of Zeppelins. ()ne rumour went so far as to state with magnificent unreason and great particularity that he was actually in charge ...

... The Fear. gut then everybody was spy-wraught in those days. There is nothing which makes people so afraid as the rumour that they have a spy in their midst. There is always some thing sinister, almost uncanny, about a spy. We imagine him a silent, furtive ...

... Princess Pat. RUMOUR is very prominent just now in connection with the matri monial intentions of Princess Patricia of Connaught, and it is not long ago since she was heard to declare that she would really have to get married soon in order to set people's ...

... pardon, sir, but I did not quite catch your name as I came in I hear that you are not going to marry that young man to whom rumour says you are engaged, said the girl's friend. Well, was the reply, father thinks he isn't rich enough, and mother thinks ...

... to hold sway during what is practically the first of the Georgian seasons. 0 0 Rules and Regulations. A lready there are rumours that things in general, or perhaps I should say in particu lar, are to be carried on on rather more formal lines than have ...

... shall get them seats for All Clear. Beatrice Lillie is more completely adorable than ever, and I could see her international spy act every night. She had supper with me afterwards and she was wearing a hat which must have come out of a Christmas cracker ...

... Presently there came a sound of hissing through the teeth. Please, said the spy, what language do you speak? They told him. A drawn out sodesca and more hissing. Then suddenly the spy's face lit up. He rose. I go, he explained, to find a colleague who u ...

... An other civil servant, John Le Carre, became one of the world's most sought-after authors with only his second book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Probably the most successful fashion boutique in London, Biba in Kensington, was started by fashion ...

... Youn^nian Carter MR. DALTON might well take an even ing off to consider this week's offerings in the cinema. If he is, as rumour runs, cocking a re flective eye upon imports involving dollars he could hardly do better than to start his per ambulation ...

... the curious outbreak of writing about the Tichborne case, that classic imposture of mid-Victorian times? A month ago, after (rumour says) half a century's MISS ALTHEA GIBSON, new holder of the Ladies' Singles title, seen walking on to the Centre Court before ...

... said once more to be looking thoughtfully towards their only iignificant rivals in the art-auction business, Christie's. Rumours of takeovers, imalgamations, schemes for limited co-operation, having quietened for some years, ire once more flying. Peter ...