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... The Tatler and Bystander Guide to Lunching, Dining and Dancing in Wartime London Maison Prunier IT was never to be expected that the indomitable Madame Prunier would for long permit the Luftwaffe to reduce her restaurant to half-pressure. So it is no ...
... should stay indoors and go to bed at ten like every other country-house guest And I explained that it was a professional point with me to dis cover how the man who genuinely lives in the country amuses himself in the evening. I discovered that he doesn't ...
... to the present-day surface; not less in Sophie persist the after-effects of two tragic wartime losses. This romantic comedy has a real- life backbone. REDDITCH HOUSE, Broadchalke, is an illustration from the extremely interesting and informative Shell ...
... that hearts might be broken and happy endings be at a premium. But one can't have everything in wartime; and the scene, the drawing-room of an Irish country house, seemed to leave loopholes for comedy to elude the sterner impacts of tragedy, and to defy the ...
... happiness of two people together. The year is 1949: the countries travelled through are, for all their show of returned normality, still far from back again on their feet. Hangovers from wartime complications meet Mr. and Mrs. Williams along their route ...
... hedgerows or knolls make across our landscape the dignity of tree-pillared avenues, and the relation of trees to towns and to country houses all this is a part of the British feeling for life? Two world wars in our century have taken a terribly heavy toll of ...
... kind The disappointing effects of country life on the author's children are also marked. In short, as Mr. Perelman's English publishers put it if you live in the country and don't want to, or if you don't live in the country and want to, this is the book ...
... later years he be came Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary, and wartime Am bassador to Washington. A strong, inherited love for the Anglican Church, and an equally lasting preference for country pursuits, hunting included, were ingredients in a character ...
... flung upon a still weirder wandering (the girl is dead), and Robert makes a living by writing mysterious love-letters for country lads and lasses with invisible ink, and we hardly pick up the story of John Neville and Margaret again, nor understand very ...
... INSIDE THE VICARAGE VICARAGES (and rectories) have about them something peculiar to English life. No other country shows anything quite the same as the C. of E.'s domiciles for its clergy. Architecturally various though they are, from classic Queen Anne ...
... lots and junk-heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flop-houses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches, ...
... the country to try her fortunes in Fleet Street seeking somewhere to live, she establishes herself in the attic flat of an atmo spheric but decidedly ambiguous Jermyn Street house otherwise occupied by ladies of the demi-monde. Naivety and country goodness ...