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...surprise at the queries of U. S. shipnewsmen about danger of war in Europe and whether Britain was in fear of attack. "You Americans are the ones who worry about war in Europe," has been the usual British remark. "In England we think more about the results of our cricket test matches...
...microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago...
...like a bound volume of a magazine, so that the instalments of serial stories are scattered piecemeal throughout the book. For Christmas 1936, Dean & Son have printed 30,000 copies of Chatterbox. In keeping with the times it features streamlined trains and aviation, but still carries old-fashioned school & cricket stories...
...great theatrical metaphysician's plays, two of which are dedicated to her. In Europe and South America in the past decade Actress Abba's long, sensitive face, throaty voice and pleasantly awkward gestures have been seen in a repertoire ranging from As You Desire Me to The Cricket on the Hearth. For the Sherwood version of Tovarich she not only learned English but acquired a slight Russian accent...
...senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus belabored like any other Eton schoolboy, but Viscount Lascelles is most unlikely to be flogged with the Eton birch by athletic, rock-climbing Headmaster Claude ("The Emperor") Aurelius Elliott. It was the sight of the Eton birch which made...