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Classic Cartoons: Martin Plimmer on Captain Bruce Bairnsfather
The Independent - London; 4/3/1999; Martin Plimmer; 141 words
; ... First World War bombs, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather possessed hand and resolve ... darkly ironic, but not bitter. Bairnsfather drew bombs like fat, levitating ... flourish, they blasted everything. Bairnsfather was criticised in Parliament ...
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Sketches from the front line
Scotland on Sunday; 11/24/2002; DANI GARAVELLI; 787 words
; ... of life in the trenches. But Bruce Bairnsfather's characters, many of them ... the time of the Armistice, Bairnsfather's most famous creation, the ... the war poets. Now, one of Bairnsfather's original cartoons, showing ...
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Judge upholds right to hold street for GBP 800,000 ransom
The Scotsman; 4/29/2004; JOHN ROBERTSON Law Correspondent; 321 words
; ... tag, a court heard yesterday. Bruce Bairnsfather used the lane to reach his ... they realised the mistake, Mr Bairnsfather nipped in with a higher offer ... daren't move anyone in because Mr Bairnsfather has created a fire risk by ...
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Antiques: What's it worth.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 8/13/2005; 305 words
; ... magazines from the 1914-1918 war by Bruce Bairnsfather, one by Lt E G O Butler and ... the more notable are, Capt Bruce Bairnsfather and Heath Robinson, Butler ... during World War One. Capt Bruce Bairnsfather was considered the most famous ...
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Weekend: Books - When every day is Christmas day; Silent Night -- The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce. By Stanley Weintraub (Simon & Schuster, pounds 12.99). Reviewed by Ross Reyburn.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England); 12/22/2001; 787 words
; ... Ploegsteert Wood, Lieutenant Charles Bruce Bairnsfather, an engineer with the Royal Warwickshire ... from German lines was heard. Then Bairnsfather, famous as the creator of World ... refrains ofDeutschland uber alles. ``News of the exchanges leaped the dugouts ... Weintraub in Silent Night. ``Then, in ...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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The pounds 1m footpath; Garage owner holds housing firm to ransom over one metre strip of land.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); 4/17/2004; 292 words
; ... footpath - or be barred from their new block of flats. Bruce Bairnsfather, 39, claims he owns land directly outside the front ... able to move in. CAPTION(S): STUBBORN: Garage owner Bruce; BLOCKED: The closed doorway; SERIOUS DOUBTS: McCluskey
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Flats halted by row over metre-wide land
Evening News - Scotland; 1/10/2004; MICHAEL HOWIE; 616 words
; ... the city's Dalry area, wants Bruce Bairnsfather to move the vehicles so the ... access for residents. But Mr Bairnsfather, who runs BR Autos at the foot ... of Session judge allowed Mr Bairnsfather to keep parking the cars next ...
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Blue the hell are you?
The Independent - London; 2/3/2002; 105 words
; What do you know about these blue plaque figures? 1. Princess Seraphine Astafieva (1876-1934) 2. Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959) 3. Lord Lugard (1858-1945) 4. Mustapha Pasha Reschid (1800-1858) 5. Jack "The Kid" Berg (1909-1991) Answers 1. Renowned ...
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Barracks wit on display.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 10/1/2002; 64 words
; CARTOONS by former soldiers can be seen in a temporary exhibition in Warwick. The display includes drawings by Bruce Bairnsfather, a member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, whose sketches appeared in the national press and who became the ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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If you know of a better 'ole, go to it.(presidents routinely sidestep War Powers Act)
The Economist (US); 4/17/1999; 787 words
; WASHINGTON, DC As Americans get ready for next week's commemoration of NATO's 50th birthday, they gaze at the choice Bruce Bairnsfather spelled out long ago ANOTHER 300 American aircraft; another $4 billion of the taxpayers' money; an imminent summons ...
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