... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis BRIGHT and fierce and fickle is the South, remarked Alfred Lord Tennyson, and dark and true and tender is the North-- a statement we have more than once been in a good position to check in two days' travel up the Great North Road. It is roughly untrue. For all that, we were refreshed by the Northern vowels of Mr. Pickles, the latest B.B.C. news ...

... : By Bruce Bairnsfather By the time you get this letter you '11 probably be in Cairo, having a good time while your poor old wife is at home fire-watching By Bruce Bairnsfather ...

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... Lunching, Dining and Dancing The Lansdowne CHEF GRASSPEN, now thoroughly at home, is providing extremely satisfying meals at this fashionable restaurant where a set luncheon may still be obtained for the modest 5s. 6d. There is also a very reasonable choice of food, wines and liqueurs, which counts a lot these days. The Lansdowne will be open on Christmas night and New Year's Eve, and bookings ...

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... By Ashley Courtenay THE old saying to the effect that people in glasshouses should not throw stones, was never so true as at the present time when our whole national structure may crash in on us unless we realise that V stands for Victory and not for venom. But there is still plenty of stone-throwmg going on amongst hotel dwellers and hotel keepers. Last week I was shown a letter an hotel ...

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... ser frontispieceES TripleX th.e f y S [Tiif. Tati.f.r and Bystander. December io, 1941. C1AII. No. 2111 E) T A|j December 10, 1941 ...

... Established as the greatest war aeroplane, the Vickers-Armstrongs Spitfire single-seat fighter. Fastest and hardest hitting machine yet standardised in any air force, it carries two 20-mm. cannon in addition to machine guns. Its engine is the Rolls-Royce Merlin, fruit of the policy of perfection laid down for the Rolls-Royce Company at its incep tion by Sir Henry Royce and tenaciously followed ...

... {ormandie Jiotel AND RESTAURANT KNIGHTSBRIDGE, S.W.7 KEN 1400 LUNCHEON DINNER DANCING TO THE GREGORY QUARTET 8.30-12.30 j Single Rooms and Bath 12/6 Single Rooms and Private Bath 157- to^!^ majesty's Double Rooms from 217- forces and Inclusive weekly terms by arrangement THEIR FAMILIES v-*- ro -Pr BE FRANCE I °0 Pv T ...

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