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...One Day echoes the same themes of class, aspiration and opportunity best explored in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited....
...FT columnist Lord Lee, who wrote the playbook on holding a portfolio of dividend payers with takeover potential, has been on the receiving end of more than 60 bids in his investing lifetime....
...News round-up Brookfield quits insurer’s board in dispute over Josh Harris’s venture (FT) British financier Evelyn de Rothschild dies aged 91 (FT) Lars Windhorst’s bank reported to regulator by Hertha...
...At the desk of a bloodhound tax inspector (Jamie Lee Curtis, wonderful) the fabric of space-time is torn asunder....
...Evelyn de Rothschild dies aged 91 The British banker, who advised the late Queen Elizabeth II on financial matters, has died “after a short illness”, the family said yesterday....
...It’s the scene between Joy, the daughter, and Michelle Yeoh’s character, Evelyn. There’s a moment at the start where she looks at her daughter, Joy, and she looks like she’s about to say, “I love you”....
...Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski) and their two kids blissfully attend a little-league game, untroubled except for some alarming news footage flashing up on the convenience store TV....
...Stuart Turton must have been apprehensive about the reception that his second novel The Devil and the Dark Water (Raven, £16.99) would receive — the audacious The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was much...
...He gleefully sends Ray on a trajectory similar to that of Paul Pennyfeather in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall (1928)....
...Tennis’s Andy Murray and distance runner Mo Farah both become knights, as does paralympic equestrian competitor Lee Pearson....
...The institution of cocktail hour has an apocryphal history, but it was Evelyn Waugh’s brother, Alec, who staked the loudest claim to its invention, writing an article in Esquire in 1974 about how he came...
...Out of pocket: Evelyn Lee and Jim Holden Lawyers have criticised the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) for turning down requests for help from businesses left in dire straits by interest rate protection...
...Her mother’s parents, John and Evelyn Cariker, came from “mostly Irish” stock, she says....
...I began by revisiting Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, and honesty compels me to admit that I have got no further. Indeed, I find that I am in no great hurry to get further....
...Evelyn Lin, head of contemporary Asian art for Sotheby’s, said: “The market for Chinese contemporary art has experienced unprecedented growth over the past five years, from $3m in 2004 to $194m in 2007....
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