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EARLY DAYS: (XI) PRINCE DANIEL'S ONE-MAN RIOT

... grain they have bought is being ground. As I believe I told you, I'd the only roller mill between the Rivers, so natur ally the pick of the custom came to me, and I got the early cream of what was due to happen next. There's one thing about the East you can ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2455 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE TRIUMPH OF BEELZEBUB

... advance was cautious, with muscles taut and ears cocked to assist his eyes and nose in discovering an adversary. Delicately he picked up each foot in turn. Noiselessly he put it down just a little further on. Progress was slow, but gradually he cleared the ...

Published: Friday 16 November 1928
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4422 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Red Haired Clown: A Vivid Drama of the Ring

... for the city walls. Dust devils spun about the camping ground, and the air hummed with flies, which swarmed over heaps of garbage flung from the walls, and bred among bones where camels and horses had fallen down and died at their journey's end. The caravan ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1931
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5339 | Page: 98 | Tags: Illustrations 

MARIEGOLD IN SOCIETY

... a series of private views, including that of our only Marchioness- artist's one -woman exhibition. Surely everyone could pick some thing exactly to her taste from such a pleasantly mixed list To begin with Covent Garden. The united Connaught family ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2447 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

CRITICISMS IN CAMEO: THE CINEMA; I.-- TROUBLE IN PARADISE, AT THE CARLTON; II.-- NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, AT THE ..

... music. His very entree en mati&re is a stirring serenade echoing down a Vene tian canal. The singer? A dustman filling his garbage boat 1 Thus can a mantle of romance be flung over an un savoury profession. With this keynote in mind, we follow the fortunes ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1054 | Page: 33 | 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 Milky Way: A Spot of Bother--and Romance--at Sea

... to put them inside a nut and sling it over the side for a confederate to pick up. No one would dream of anything being inside a bit of rub bish like that floating with the garbage round the ship's side. Anyhow, I committed a felony this morning while Inch ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1935
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4925 | Page: 47 | 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 

Hermits on the Third Floor: A Romance of Middle Age

... was on a wintry day. Henry Tingle had come home to find the landing cluttered with the girl's belongings. He frowned as he picked his way towards his own door, then the girl suddenly appeared and addressed him. In soft musical words she apologised for ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6580 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By . . .: One Thing and Another

... Thirteen to muck, is it not, James all built by our ignorant mediaeval fore fathers, who walked on all fours and lived on garbage, as every child knows is about half a dozen, and at their head we set personally the exquisite little fourteenth-century bridge ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations