Hints and tips:
...Star writers turned up such as JB Priestley, EM Forster and George Bernard Shaw, as well as David Lloyd George (though the former prime minister, a natural orator, suffered speaker’s cramp in the absence...
...George Taubman Goldie, the secretive brains behind the RNC, was a “corporate terrorist”, in the mould of Cecil Rhodes....
...In Britain, I would keep Winston Churchill but remove Cecil Rhodes. The former's statue is ubiquitous because he stood alone against Nazism....
...In 1953, the director Dudley Shaw Ashton made Figures in a Landscape, the first film about Hepworth’s work....
...She could expect to be triumphant: the Privy Council’s distinguished members included her brother-in-law, William Cecil, the Queen’s Lord Treasurer; her nephew, Robert Cecil, who was secretary of state;...
...Like Thatcher, his career-defining work was done in the 1980s, and on Newsnight he recycled old jokes and riffed on the names of some of those who served under Thatcher – “the Keiths, Normans and Cecils”...
...This is where he reads and many of the books tell the story of his life and times: first editions dedicated to him by Thatcher, Cecil Parkinson and Jeffrey Archer....
...Modernism enters dramatically with the underground spike of Dizzy Gillespie’s 1945 recording of “Shaw Nuff”....
...One regular was the photographer Cecil Beaton, whose signed prints of the Windsors now adorn the walls of Le Moulin. It is a gripping story....
...The Who’s Who of desert island castaways includes Julie Andrews, Peter Ustinov, Margot Fonteyn, Cecil Day Lewis, Noel Coward, Vera Lynn and John Betjeman....
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