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...“The lack of global dealmaking activity means very thin gruel indeed when it comes to bonus season,” says Jason Hollands, managing director of Evelyn Partners, a wealth manager....
...Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) involves some partying at No 10 and the defenestration of a prime minister (Person in the News, FT Weekend, January 22)....
...The Tatler labelled her “squadron leader of Society’s Young Brigade” and she marshalled them from party to pageant to charity ball and back again....
...Down the coast from Bexhill, the exquisite Sandcastle in Pevensey Bay by C Evelyn Simmons is built in a similar language....
...The title of which Evelyn Waugh novel comes from a phrase in T S Eliot’s The Waste Land? In 2013, the American quiz show Jeopardy!...
...Arch-conservative Evelyn Waugh observed acidly: “The Conservative party have never put the clock back a single second.”...
...Brexit, Sir Evelyn says, is being played all wrong. “It’s like going in to bat at cricket: you have to be slow. You’re not going to hit six every time, you’ve got to play the ball....
...In 1700 gardener John Evelyn described the invention as “the most elegant, usefull and Philosophicall” of tools due to its ability to mimic rain....
...To see Sobers bat at number six in a major Test match crisis, or take the new ball away from his usual opener in order to change the game, was breathtaking....
...JFK was a childhood friend: he danced with Debo at her coming-out ball and his sister “Kick” married her brother-in-law Billy....
...DH Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell all lived here and current residents include John le Carré and the playwright David Hare....
...Unusually for a patron, James takes penalties and hit-ins, and can whack the ball a good 150 yards....
...“I was once styling a VIP client for a ball in Paris,” she recounted. “I presented a Christian Lacroix dress that she adored....
...“How Mlle Evelyn would have laughed,” Juniper slyly comments....
...When Evelyn dies, Barbara is charged with dropping the ashes, sealed in a bowling ball, into the lake....
...When I asked Ms Kavanagh whether this was a tale of new business models versus old-world practices, her response was typically robust: “That’s absolute balls....
...As to the movie, well, I don’t remember who it was that, after seeing Brideshead Revisited, said, “Evelyn’s life would have been completely different if he had looked like Jeremy Irons.”...
...Observer hears he has slowed down a bit but compensates by hitting the ball with plenty of spin....
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