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...And when in 1766 David Hume commissioned portraits of himself and his fellow philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau from the Scottish artist Allan Ramsay, he set philosophy and painting in collision, raising...
...The Allan Gardens Conservatory first opened in 1860. The current structure was completed in 1910, after the previous building was ravaged by fire....
...In some cases, lawyers can “name their price” not to walk out the door, said Daniel Harris, associate director at recruiter Robert Walters....
...In Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy (1817), a Glasgow merchant, Baillie Nicol Jarvie, scornful of opponents of the union with England, says “it’s an ill wind blaws naebody gude . . . what was ever like to gar...
...In May 2006, a writer named Allan Chappelow was found savagely beaten to death in his north-west London home....
...It is not surprising, perhaps, that Walter Sickert’s art school by Highbury Fields never really took off....
...The romantic era of Walter Scott has yielded to a modern landscape, in which Lucia is a pawn in her brother’s corrupt land swindle, unfolding in an elegant mausoleum and a posh executive office....
...Neither bass — Daniel Sumegi (Count Walter) and Andrea Silvestrelli (the dastardly Wurm) — provided bel canto experiences. Gockley has not always made a dramatic case for Verdi....
...As demand rose, he and his cousin Walter realised how important the quality and consistency of the blend would be....
...Sir, Robert Shrimsley calls Walter Palmer, the dentist from Minneapolis who infamously killed Cecil the lion, the “new face of the big game hunter”, in contrast to “images of Clark Gable in Mogambo or Allan...
...The work at the heart of the tussle is Picasso’s sculpture of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, “Buste de Femme (Marie Thérèse)” (1931), on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York....
...He is no longer Clark, the matinee idol; he is Walter the dentist from Minneapolis....
...Assiduous lobbying by Sunday Times critic Elkan Allan, along with the desire of TV producers to have their work given more serious attention, meant that critics were increasingly provided with previews –...
...Founders Steve Oliver and Walter Gleeson have sold minority stakes to LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, and the chairman, Allan Leighton, the former chief executive of Asda, the supermarket...
...Alan Walters, human resources vice-president at Unilever UK, said he felt “very positive” at the outcome of some 100 days of negotiations....
...Robert Watson, CMG, chief scientific adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Andrew Witty, chief executive, GlaxoSmithKline Order of the Bath KNIGHTS COMMANDER, KCB Alexander Allan...
...One of the names he put forward was Allan Walters, who was to become one of Mrs Thatcher’s key economic advisers....
...He cites Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay and Eric Linklater – historians who were also creative writers....
...Allan Ripp, a spokesman for CDR Financial, said CDR had just received the complaint but there was no basis for a criminal indictment....
...In the case of Walter Braunfels’ Die Vögel, a 1920 adaptation of Aristophanes’ comedy, The Birds, Conlon has exhumed one of the rare neglected operas of the period that reject the prevailing vogue for morbid...
...Other writers have their festivals, their commemorative plaques, their dusty corners in the Abbey, their statues – even, in the case of Sir Walter Scott, a railway station, “Waverley”, named after his greatest...
...Even my distant cousin Walter [Walter Sichel headed the British wine importers Sichel at the time] thought I was doing the wrong thing, but I still had the courage of youth then....
...Julie Walters, actress. Helen Weir, group finance director, Lloyds TSB, the bank. Philip Williamson, former chief executive, Nationwide Building Society....
...But, as Allan Massie insists in this typically sharp, sane and wise book, that Britain was for centuries a mongrel state....
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