Hints and tips:
...According to writer Virginia Faulkner and diplomat Jerry Wadsworth, questions guaranteed to liven conversation include, “Are you a bed wetter?” and, “Do you like string?” Try them some time....
...The markets of Zürich are filled with promotional editions of this humble pocket knife, emblazoned with the logos of many of Switzerland’s peaceful 20th-century corporate giants, from Brown Boveri to Ciba-Geigy...
...Brown is, after all, my favourite colour – not least, as one expert correctly notes here, because it looks extremely good with gold....
...As one of William Faulkner’s characters observed, the past is never dead — it is not even past — and key characters and elements recur, time here taking the form less of a river than a whirlpool....
...Burncoose Nurseries supply passifloras, including a particular favourite, caerulea Constance Elliot, named after a great plantsman who first gave me a plant of it in my youth....
...A slice of modernism, completed in 1983, it houses one of Scotland’s finest art collections: some 9,000 artefacts amassed over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell....
...Among the whites, Lilian Bassett and, again, Constance Rivett are top picks. Home Farm do not deliver by mail....
...Norco’s writing nods to Southern Gothic authors such as William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy alongside genre writers Raymond Chandler and William Gibson....
...Taken from The Constance Spry Cookery Book by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume, JM Dent Books, 1956 1960s Spaghetti bolognese In the 1960s, the home cook emerged from the era of war and austerity to embrace...
...It now stocks 30,000 new titles from across the humanities, and is known for its “book bundles” – packages of books organised around themes such as “Fiction in Translation”, wrapped in brown paper and tied...
...Initialled trunks, Constance Spry-style urns or old-fashioned patterned dinner services strike a chord with nostalgist, vintage-loving millennials....
...When fresh-faced Dorothy (Constance Wu) starts working at a club, veteran Ramona (a magnetic Jennifer Lopez) takes her under her wing. Cue glorious slo-mo sequences and Lizzo and Cardi B cameos....
...Posing as her household help, Rose — now named “Laura Brown” — ends up typing out the writer’s much-anticipated work, produced after a decades-long hiatus....
...The author reads her own words in indomitable fashion, and anyone who enjoyed Craig Brown’s life of Glenconner’s former employer, Ma’am Darling, will find this fascinating....
...By now, the Spry vase has become a flurry of greens, browns and oranges — the constituent parts inserted in no particular order. “Obviously this is an arrangement-type arrangement....
...Architects Adrian Brooks Chairman, Production Park Dave Jones Managing Director, Veka Katie Hale President, Sutton Coldfield Chamber of Commerce Paul Bennett Chair, Shropshire Business Board Nick Brown...
...Win Thin, at Brown Brothers Harriman, a private bank, said that separate data had revealed a decline in private-sector activity, suggesting weak business confidence....
...A gouache of a dinky green-brown number 96 bus with creamy, silvery dabs, the lovely “Autobus Gare Montparnasse (liqueur des îles)”, whose passengers are squiggly pink faces at the windows and skeletal Giacometti...
...Its pace is unhurried, woven with horological metaphors, meditations on time and allusions to William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily”. Character reveals itself slowly, as in a novel....
...He invested in a management buyout of Curtis Brown, the literary agency that had made the reputations of John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and Norman Mailer, becoming its chairman....
...In 1912, a group known as “the Brown Women” had walked from Edinburgh to London to gather support for a petition to the prime minister (one shinned up a telegraph pole to get a signature from an engineer...
...As a result, Fitzgerald is securely lodged in the pantheon alongside Hemingway and William Faulkner, the rivals he watched with unease in the 1930s....
...He wrote books, essays, and lectures on William Faulkner, Charles Ives, John Ford and the kitschy pleasures of bad poetry....
...They hired a distiller, Jared Brown, and named their stills Prudence, Patience and Constance. They encouraged people to visit their distillery to see their gin being made, as many winemakers do....
...It was formed in 1988 from Sweden’s Asea and Switzerland’s Brown Boveri. The energy industry — a big customer — is in the middle of a revolution....
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