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...In the aftermath of his death, Elsie walks out of her private school, Lady Hilary’s, and vanishes for days....
...Design has subsequently moved back to Japan....
...of print) and, to the rear, a jungly conservatory, where a long wooden Neptune dining table is dominated by giant potted palm, fig leaf and rubber plants, which von Halle annually drags into the shaded back...
...Actor Elsie de Wolfe is perhaps the best known; her credits include New York’s first all-female members social club, The Colony Club, which opened in 1907....
...Also currently in the scales of the gods: the results of my PCR test, for which I’ll need good news to fly back to London and see my family for the first normal(ish) Christmas in two years....
...the first day of the season in one of Europe’s top ski resorts, staff are flitting between tables to pour chilled champagne and wine, switching between English, French, Italian and German as they welcome back...
...It will show works going back to the mid-1990s, and though it is still in development, its title — End of Empire — is secured....
...One memorable portrait, of the dancer and actress Elsie Altmann-Loos, helped shake the subject out of an unhappy marriage....
...Our heroine is Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), age 13....
...Yet the risk-averse industry clings to customs harking back to the days when the Royal Institute of British Architects, the professional body, was established in the 1830s under the patronage of William...
...We are warned to watch our heads as we stoop into Elsie Owusu’s cottage in Ticehurst, East Sussex....
...Elsie Owusu, who is seeking to be the institute’s first black president in elections that close on Tuesday, has used her campaign to attack Riba as an inward-looking “old boys’ club”, guilty of both discrimination...
...Previously exhibited in Chicago and Minneapolis, the images were all commissioned by Morgan to illustrate postcards and a weekly bulletin back in the US....
...He hasn’t made it — and he’s white’ Forty-five years ago, Elsie Owusu was told by her health visitor that she’d never make it as an architect....
...The standard deal is the kids drag me to a drama lesson or play date, and on the way back I drag them into a food shop....
...A meal such as this, so literary it contains almost no actual foodstuffs, requires back-up, certainly....
...So rich is the variety Fara presents that it seems invidious to make a selection — but Elsie Inglis, for example, was a Suffragist doctor who defied the advice of the War Office and opened (in three weeks...
...Ulysse introduces Haitian fiction, while Guatemalan novelist David Unger tells me about that country’s tiny Jewish community — and, amazingly, turns out to have been my wife’s high-school English teacher back...
...Degas’ geometrically articulated space and solid manner in “Hélène Rouart” and in an austere frontal portrait from Walsall of his 14-year-old sister Marguerite — hair pulled back, collar neat for school,...
...Lying in bed on my birthday, sun streaming through the window, roses all around me, reading a book about the American decorator Elsie de Wolfe, with a dish of raspberries at my side and a very strong coffee...
...White trucks back up to the aluminium shutters of the low-slung meat markets, while across the riverside freeway more trucks idle waiting to transport garbage or grit across the city from the to-be-demolished...
...By the 1918 Proms, male soloists had become scarce, while female artists, including the violinist Winifred Smith and the pianists Elsie Hall and Hilda Saxe, were in the spotlight....
...You might have guessed that Sean Connery would make it but what about Elsie Inglis, a doctor who campaigned for women’s healthcare and suffrage, and who appears on Scottish £50 notes?...
...The two men cemented their partnership when they married sisters Doris and Elsie Hayward....
...London’s Goldsmiths’ Hall is set to exhibit a collection of more than 300 bejewelled make-up cases and evening bags dating back to the 18th century....
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