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...Johnson has spoken movingly of the tension between child-rearing and career. Just as the latter was burgeoning, she took time out to raise her sons....
...He inherited the estate in 1988 from Dorothy “Dolly” de Rothschild, and financed and oversaw it for the National Trust....
...In 1957, Corden had married Dorothy Martin, to whom he remained devoted until her death in 2010. Their only child, Jane, died in 2019. Corden’s writing and teaching styles were distinctive....
...In 1954 he took the lead, opposite Dorothy Dandridge, in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Bizet’s opera with an all-black cast....
...In memory of Dorothy Bohm, who has died aged 98, we are reposting this piece, originally published in June 2022 “I think there’s no other photographer who started out as I did,” says Dorothy Bohm....
...“We are in the throes of our spring clean now, and I have spreadsheets upon spreadsheets detailing what we need to do in what room,” says Dorothy Rayner, who oversees the team of housekeeping and conservation...
...Once the historian Antonia Fraser came and asked my father, “Who would you say is your favourite child?” It was a scalding inversion, for a moment, of King Lear....
...I saw a little Dorothy straight from Oz, her blue chequered dress and glittery red shoes bringing an irresistible smile to my face....
...For many, being child-free is a liberation from societal expectations. Others feel, as one Singaporean couple put it to me, that kids “don’t pass the cost-benefit test”....
...“In the Thirties and Forties there were only exceptions — there could be one woman at the paper because she’s Dorothy Parker and she has her funny column or she writes those biting reviews and [slipping...
...But, thanks to a helpful funeral director, I find myself speaking via video-link to her youngest child, Robert, a retired farmer and commercial pilot in his early sixties....
...In The Wizard of Oz, the leap from the oppressive black and white of Kansas to the rich Technicolor of Oz is meant to signal Dorothy’s departure from dreariness and arrival in a thrilling new world....
...Sayers had an illegitimate child, and when she did marry, it was to a chronically ill divorcé, so she was the family breadwinner....
...Dorothy Parker once quipped that Katharine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B. Martin Freeman’s range is even more economical: A to A....
...And is he going to like the writer Dorothy Parker, now tripping down the steep path in her equally silly shoes?...
...Dorothy Buxton, the co-founder of Save the Children, who defied national laws, pioneered universal child rights and created a great institution....
...When I was a child, the greatest compliment a teacher could pay you was “lovely and sensible”. Gingham has this quality I think....
...In 1797, Wordsworth and his adored sister Dorothy lived for a little over a year as Somerset neighbours to Coleridge and his young wife, Sara Fricker....
...I draw the line at child suffering but suburban torture? Nothing better. Third: retribution....
...Someone who’s made the journey from outsider to elite is barrister Hashi Mohamed, formerly a child refugee from Somalia....
...It was at the hall that Imogen Holst, the only child of composer Gustav Holst, organised the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts — a forerunner to Arts Council England....
...Almond chats to writer Matthew Todd about the significance of The Wizard of Oz to the gay community, at a time when “you couldn’t be out” and phrases such as “a friend of Dorothy” were vital codes....
...Dorothy Draper, Decorating Is Fun!...
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
...A murdered child’s set of crumb-sized blocks fits perfectly into its wooden box....
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