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...Vanderbilts, assorted princes and lords, a governor of Hong Kong, consuls, the Earl of Cork, restaurateur Lorenzo Delmonico and, unnamed but identifiable, his patron Mrs Astor — McAllister name-drops his...
...Throw in a rarity on this side of the Atlantic, Roy Harris’s short, quick-moving Symphony No 3, and this concert was one of Rattle’s best inventions....
...Our plates are cleared and we decide to skip dessert, but Nolan orders more Earl Grey. I ask for an espresso....
...Many thanks to Nilanjana Roy for reminding us of the comic genius of PG Wodehouse (Life & Arts, December 3). He is, of course, worth reading at any time....
...Another was his campaign to impeach Earl Warren, chief justice of the Supreme Court, for his philo-Soviet rulings from the bench (including the 1954 desegregation of US schools in Brown vs Board of Education...
...That truth has inspired many innovative takes, including a hip-hop version and Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones as octogenarian lovers....
...Unlike Succession’s Logan, Obama Sr was not visible on every TV screen and every newspaper, but he still shaped his son’s outlook....
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
...The resulting debacle, involving an involuntary but fatal save by the club’s own mascot, Earl the greyhound, is even more tragic than anything dreamt up in an England final....
...Maxwell Sr was, by all accounts, a nightmare — not for nothing does the presenter compare him to Logan Roy, the fearsome patriarch in the TV series Succession....
...Arundhati Roy writer What do I most look forward to as we emerge from the lockdown? Most urgently, a carefully drawn up ledger of accountability....
...It originated in the Crimean war, when the Earl of Cardigan charged ahead of the Light Brigade, kitted out in the sensible extra layer of a collarless, knitted jacket....
...features a solo from the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove....
...By that time, he had followed Earl Hines into Louis Armstrong’s band, moved from Chicago to New York with Benny Carter and collaborated with an as yet unrecorded Art Tatum, influences clearly audible on...
...Nilanjana Roy is the author of ‘The Wildings’ and ‘The Hundred Names of Darkness’ and lives in Delhi. @nilanjanaroy...
...The 15-mile night walk will snake its way through cultural and heritage sites such as Brompton Cemetery in Earl’s Court, Chelsea Physic Garden and the Victoria and Albert Museum....
...Varieties now include wild garlic, Earl Grey and honey and malt whisky....
...Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner presented a different problem. They led IBM in different eras: Watson built the company in the first half of the 20th century; Gerstner turned it around in the 1990s....
...Only eight relations stand between Monty and the title of Earl of Highhurst. He sets out to dispatch them all....
...The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25, 496 pages Roy Hattersley is a born storyteller, and to tell the story of England over 400 years through the...
...Secrets of Some Wiltshire Housewives, published in 1927, also one shilling, was compiled by the novelist and folklorist Edith Olivier who lived at the Daye (dairy) House in the Earl of Pembroke’s park at...
...The actor James Earl Jones described him as “the most complex character that Shakespeare ever created”....
...Mr Roy says the success of a number of state-owned companies over the past decade has created a “Frankenstein’s monster” that the party cannot easily control....
...… When the Act of Union was signed, the pro-union Scots Chancellor, the Earl of Seafield, said: “There’s the end of ane auld sang.”...
...Sir Roy said in a statement on Friday that the group was continuing to hold refinancing discussions....
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