Hints and tips:
...Former chief executive Steve Rowe stepped down last year and was succeeded by Stuart Machin, who oversaw the group’s food business....
...Others, such as Sweaty Betty, now owned by US shoe group Wolverine Worldwide, have been acquired....
...New rooms with a view in Florence Betty Soldi and Matteo Perduca are local heroes in their hometown....
...I have two on rotation — starting with the Gary from Sweaty Betty, which are slim but not tight and last for years (£90, sweatybetty.com)....
...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But she is not old at all....
...“It’s a bit of a drive,” she said, “maybe a bit touristy, but they filmed Betty Blue near there and the food is really good.”...
...Stopping what they were doing and sitting down to a meal was important not just for the food or conversation, but also for the aesthetic experience....
...Betty Resnick, an economist at the federation, said that a fall in turkey prices had been “the big driver in lowering costs for the dinner”, pointing to “a much better avian flu situation nationally this...
...She admits much of Labour’s poll lead is down to public anger at the Tories rather than a newfound love of her party....
...At home I’m less organised – I’m constantly finding needles hidden down the side of the bed. My summer ’23 collection had a horticultural theme....
...What’s more, life expectancy is down — a rare and disturbing anomaly for a rich nation — as is social mobility....
...In the seminal 1979 book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards teaches you to separate what your brain assumes something looks like from the shapes you’re actually seeing....
...The mining magnate and athlete — a racewalking champion in his youth who nearly competed in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics — has been investing in cycling since he stepped down as head of Glencore....
...I went to SUNY Purchase, and I heard Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter, and I was like, I love how unique everybody’s voice is, you know?...
...Today, such overt chauvinism has toned down....
...She has just bopped into a green room at a Manhattan hotel, said “Hiiiii” like we’re old friends and dropped her Betty Boop purse on a chair....
...Her image was larger-than-life, a beehived composite of Betty Boop and Ronnie Spector magicked into being with a mascara wand and singular imagination. She was witty, clever, ribald and charismatic....
...Which isn’t to say that there isn’t a lot going on: Frank is in the throes of a new relationship, sort of, with his Vietnamese-American masseuse Betty Tran (“At the end of our two hours I rose — not without...
...Most of the works come from the Château de Ferrières, east of Paris, designed by Joseph Paxton for Baron James Mayer de Rothschild — the son of the dynasty’s founder — and his wife (and niece) Betty in 1862...
...I think down in Devon there’s a campaign to have some primaries down there....
...I can’t remember where I heard it but I wrote it down and have it pinned in front of my desk. Even in the biggest work disasters, I try to see the positives....
...Other tricks for looking put together but relaxed for men are to go for a button-down Oxford or chambray shirt, rather than poplin, and opt for leather desert boots over trainers....
...She’d wave away compliments, and attributed having a vibrant career in her nineties to being unable to turn down new projects. “I have the backbone of a jellyfish,” she said....
...“Hello, Betty!” “Look, Betty!” “Come here, Betty.” “Kiss, Betty!” “Hide, Betty!” “Betty . . . watch out!”...
...More recently, Rick Riordan, author of the fabulous Percy Jackson mythologies, wrote: “It would be a mistake to ‘write down’ to kids. They hate that....
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