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...Dylan Thomas threw up on the carpet, idler Jeffrey Bernard idled there, and artists made their names merely by signing the guest book....
...At Fortnum & Mason’s smart new cocktail bar, 3’6, rum highballs are topped with jewel-coloured violas, tiny velvety flowers with a subtle taste of mint; at Lyaness and the Mandarin Oriental’s Aubrey bar...
...inspiration from the Victorian venue, built in stages between 1862 and 1899, and the 19th-century Decadent movement associated with queer figures such as poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and illustrator Aubrey...
...He wrote warmly of the nearby Wandle River valley and the village of Carshalton, then surrounded by lavender fields....
...It used to be the case that a man’s life lasted less than 30,000 days but Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist, speculates that the person who will live a thousand years has already been born....
...We are, of course, talking about Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man, pictured below....
...Cooking smells and lavender oil seem quite pleasant additions to the air. How bad could they be?...
...No one embodied its headlong growth like Chesapeake Energy’s Aubrey McClendon, a persuasive industry advocate who built up the largest acreage position in the country....
...Williams now faced formidable rivals for Wilson’s ear in the form of Bernard Donoughue, head of the policy unit, and Joe Haines, the press secretary. There were again tensions with Number 10 officials....
...John Aubrey: My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 An experimental “act of scholarly imagination” brings to life the 17th-century antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...Precocious and pampered, Clark progressed to Oxford in the 1920s, fell under the influence of Roger Fry – his conduit to Bloomsbury – then worked for Bernard Berenson in Italy....
...Sage greens, drifts of lavender and cypress trees corseted in string....
...She had washed, ironed and starched it herself, then laid it away in lavender and tissue paper for the winter.”...
...Little wonder that the biographer John Aubrey, who found him there, lying “in a hamoc like an Indian”, described him as “the greatest master of the art of running in debt”....
...Bernard Aubrey, the powerful impresario of the theatre where Richard is playing, is poisoned days later. Josephine Tey’s cousin, Detective Inspector Penrose, suspects a sinister double murder....
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