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...Tech zillionaires, Hollywood moguls, blue bloods of the Martha’s Vineyard waterfront, double-barrelled British gentry, oligarchs, King Salman’s assorted cousins....
...They have scattered as far as Siberia and Bolivia, arriving on Peipus’ western side when it was under Swedish rule, along with German gentry....
...And don’t miss my colleague Gideon Rachman’s interview with Brian Deese, the former head of the president’s National Economic Council....
...Born into the Kent gentry (his father was a judge, eventually a Lord), Tomlin was sent to Harrow, where he dazzled with his promise....
...The hitch for Yanks wishing to live out this reverie today is that, outside Oxbridge, most British men — even landed gentry — don’t bust out their boating blazers quite as often as they used to....
...“At this point we’ve decided the ‘costs’ don’t outweigh the benefits.” BlackRock’s nearest competitor, Vanguard, has opted for an entirely different strategy....
...The next you’re deep in a valley of citrus orchards and century-old manor houses, where the island’s landed gentry spend their summers....
...Such a hot housing market, built on people grasping for a quiet slice of rural or seaside bliss, “lavishes rich rewards on so-called gentry, goldsmiths and the rest of that crew, who don’t work at all or...
...More than 2,000 jars a day, hand-packed in straw-lined barrels for delivery to discerning grocers and thence the gentry. This was seriously aspirational stuff....
...People often ask why I don’t paint myself. I think that in the long run, I am. It’s me out in the world.”...
...Modern apples don’t brown so quickly because people don’t want this characteristic.” Identifying apples is tricky....
...They value creative work, dress emphatically down, express disdain for anything that smells of class anxiety (New Yorker subscriptions, fussiness about wine), and don’t care about money....
...Here, his role doubles as narrator — and narrator and narrator, Ritchie’s grasp of show-don’t-tell apparently stuck at the audiobook stage....
...“I don’t think it has ever left me,” he says....
...Queen Victoria may have appeared in Paisley-made shawls in public, but the gentry – like Lady Bertram of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park – coveted the real thing....
...“It’s like putting landed gentry in front of a bunch of Guardian readers,” said Ms Dovey. “It’s not a comfortable place for them to be.”...
...And don’t miss our FT News Briefing audio show — a short daily rundown of the top global stories....
...“Stocks look lovely, but they don’t flower for very long and occupy a lot of space.”...
...And — if we must think about them — they’d prefer we think they don’t give a damn about what we think....
...“When you think of major universities you don’t just think of them from the education component but as being the source of new ideas,” Mehta says....
...Lower down the social strata, you might have your barons, your gentry, your knights. They probably have a woman working for them. And she, again, probably has an assistant at that point....
...One quibble with many English-language productions is that the playwright’s doomed gentry simply don’t look or sound like the social class he depicted wilting away in their Russian country estates; instead...
...Or there is a brake but you don’t use it for anything.” Apparently, braking is discouraged, to keep the ploughing smooth....
...My father-in-law was a footman to the gentry when he was young, and one of his regular duties was to polish up silver from the vaults for his lordship to give as gifts....
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