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THE SUCCESS OF OUR RUMMAGE SALE: A COMPLETE STORY

... between my old playmate and myself. Mrs. Denzil is in the drawing-room, ma'am, announced Jane, and we joyfully left the garbage we were sorting and went to be cheered by the gayest, maddest mortal in our countryside. Mrs. Denzil had a husband out in ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2757 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Letters of Eve

... Londoner. But the prisoner of war who is in those hands wmcn are to sign agree- ments with us (if we let him feed our men on garbage that even pigs refuse. A nd when he is sick. No need to repeat how here the sick Hun is treated, but a little renetition ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1918
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3573 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

An Unacademic View of the Academy

... anything which Burlington House might deem worthy cf honour and I remember walking round each room, carefully avoiding such garbage as might be hung on the line and looking in the neighbourhood of the cornice for such stray masterpieces as the hanging committee ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1925
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2811 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Two Orders of Live Mice, Please

... his knees half the time, you cannot see them often. Garbage is in somewhat the same class as Mr. Thomas. Both are ugly, although Garbage is the worst offender. Tommy is quiet most of the time, but Garbage firmly believes it absolutely necessary to keep up ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3295 | Page: 50 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MARQUISE

... bright red scar as from a knife wound. I started back. It was the Marquise my gentle, mysterious, tragic Marquise, picking over the garbage in true economical French fashion for fear the servants should have thrown away a possible salad leaf. I could scarcely ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2638 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

... placed on the counter. The nut looked at it with satisfaction. Ah, he murmured happily, that looks fine. He reached over, picked up the pepper shaker, and sprinkled a liberal dose of pepper into the coffee. Then he grabbed the salt shaker and repeated ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 733 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... well: bred girls darted an icy look and bent their heads over the garbage on their plates like offended swans. Decent chaps with glassy eyes stared through him into vacancy and picked up a fresh forkful of clinkers. A cloud of hate grew and hung over ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1738 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thing and Another

... traditions of a city which, unlike the ruck of cities, spends its money not on gold caskets but garbage- vans. That magnificent fleet of huge creamy- yellow motor garbage-vans which is the apple of every Westminster citizen's eye moved us once, when we were a ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1429 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

PORTRAITS IN PRINT: Eight Years Have Passed

... mend shoes both for himself and their family, or beat and knock hemp or flax, or pick and stamp apples or crabs for cider or vinegar, or else grind malt on the querns,* pick candle ruches, or do some husbandly office till it be fully eight o'clock. Then ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1634 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By

... what did you think old inscrutable Disraeli was doing there Picking grand dames for the Primrose League Showdown Letters to the Press of the type beginning Sir I cannot allow Dame Fifi Garbage's extraordinary pronouncements on foot- and-mouth disease to ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

BRECHT MAKES A POINT

... precision of the playing showed impressively what could be accomplished by an original mind given unlimited time to rehearse a picked and dedicated company. But this sort of response merely angers the fanatical Brechtians. They insist that their hero is not ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 837 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations