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...When Butler later won a Bafta, Bennett was the first person he thanked. We kept in touch....
...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...In spite of the rain, staff ran as discreetly as possible across the square carrying silver dishes to be served at the 14-seat dining table by Stefano, my butler....
...“If you followed the guidance to the letter, it would effectively mean you could not do any large-cap leveraged finance transaction,” says Carol Van der Vorst, a partner at Ropes & Gray in London....
...“These were shadows of the things that have been,” the Ghost of Christmas Past tells Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. “That they are what they are, do not blame me!”...
...By the way, I’m thinking of taking on a butler. I wondered if you might fancy doing the job for £1,000 a year. £1,000 a year? What sort of a salary is that? It’s an excellent salary – for 1950....
...Carol Dempsey, tax partner with PwC said: “We were pleased to see the government decided not to increase capital gains tax rates from the previous 18 per cent rate to 40 per cent.”...
...It literally reflected her glamorous days of chandeliers and her sense of occasion – as well as my sister’s free spirit because as a teenager she was caught by our butler dancing naked in front of it to...
...James Walter Butler, sculptor. Sophie Christiansen, Paralympic equestrian. Edward Clancy. Olympic cyclist. Lynette Costello, co-founder, Mothers Against Murder and Aggression....
...Rhett Butler’s People By Donald McCaig MacMillan £17.99, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind told from Rhett Butler’s perspective....
...It is pleasant carols, pretty nativity scenes and a vague borrowing of the joy that real Christians feel at this time when, once again, unto them a son is given who will save them for evermore....
..."Dollar amounts that have been proposed for legal liability seem to be wide and varied," Mr Butler says....
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