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...“It was in a hidden corner of the Oxford University Press basement, where the Dictionary’s archive is stored, that I opened a dusty box and came across a small black book tied with a ribbon.”...
...As for H R Knickerbocker (“Knick”), his bedazzlement by Mussolini (“Benevolent, agreeable, polite, intelligent”) didn’t stop him from finding a “talented, dangerous demagogue” in Hitler before the Nazi takeover...
...Whether with gem-studded crowns, gourmet palace banquets, dusty Balkan battlefields or pirate mayhem in north Africa, he often does the same himself....
...A dusty old spy book about realpolitik and double-agents has the benefit of being vaguely educational while also delivering a pure escapist thrill....
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
...H&M’s wood and rattan picture frame is smart and chic and will never date....
...Today, the Chelsea headquarters of this world-renowned antiquarian dealer isn’t a “dusty old bookshop with some grumpy old man peering over his glasses”, jokes Harrington’s son Pom, now the owner, but a...
...Twenty years later, the volumes stretch from A-H and would pack out a large suitcase....
...is why we’re sure his key limited partner was even more delighted to see him seemingly have a kip on stage at their Future Investment Initiative summit -- a.k.a The Davos in the Desert -- on Tuesday: (h/...
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...Flavin Judd once said, “In some ways, my father saved Marfa from becoming a dusty, abandoned Border Patrol stop. But in other ways it was Fairfax and Virginia who did it....
...Sotheby’s catalogue recalls that Costakis “tracked them down in dusty corners of commission shops and from the surviving artists and their descendants”....
...Probably not, says Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who was the UK’s chief environmental scientist for seven years until he stepped down in August....
...At 200km/h, the clean streets and modern buildings of Tashkent, the capital, yielded to dusty desert punctuated by villages of squat houses and three-wheeled tractors....
...H&M, for instance, imports from an Ethiopian clothing factory it set up with Bangladeshi garment maker DBL....
...It was, perhaps, necessary to give the book a novel-like feel, to weave in a few more threads in the hope of smuggling The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth out of the dusty “Short Fiction” shelves of the bookshops...
...“It’s a dusty old business, not like fashion, which refreshes itself three or four times a year. So we’ve tried to make a space that’s interesting and alive....
...H(A)PPY, by Nicola Barker, Heinemann, RRP£20, 304 pages Illustration by Cat O’Neal...
...Fragment by dusty, shameful fragment, the jigsaw coheres....
...But walking along a dusty stream bed before being taken to the state’s Tha Htone prison, he says he will not pay again. “I will face the sentence,” he says. “And I will serve it all.”...
...Concrete foundations for an even larger expansion are visible in the dusty marketplace....
...There were also costs associated in extracting H&B from shared functions with Nature’s Bounty, including IT services....
...But I know Harford is fundamentally right, and I am proud to say that I have so far managed not to file this thoroughly enjoyable book on my shelf under “H” in non-fiction....
...Sign-up for our Weekend Email here Letter in response to this article: Germany has a largely ceremonial head of state / From A D H Leishman, Cape Town, South Africa...
...(This is how most information still circulates in a country where the digital superhighway remains more of a dusty byroad.)...
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