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...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...One is reminded of Charles Ryder in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, pathetically craving the gilded halls of high society while fretting about words like “righty-o.”...
...The venue is as beautiful as I remember it: New College Hall, Oxford, the oldest surviving dining hall in the city....
...A place that Evelyn Waugh wouldn’t have sufficient bile to disparage. I still remember the liver in the dining hall with the same uncontrollable panicked nausea as I do the words of the Latin grace....
...The latter was a seminal reference for Financial Times columnist Luke Edward Hall when considering the patterned tanks that feature in his new brand, Chateau Orlando....
...Evelyn Hall, a production assistant who works on television shows in New York, was among the black workers who struggled to find work....
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...The lights went up on theatres and concert halls. In London, we began to play our old game of sardines on the Tube....
...the London Eye and Westminster Bridge, passing below the vast County Hall (once the seat of the London County Council)....
...“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist,” wrote Evelyn Waugh in 1930....
...But Evelyn Lord, emeritus professor of History at Wolfson College, Cambridge university, and author of The Great Plague: A People’s History says there could be truth in it, after studying records in Kingston...
...Evelyn O’Davoren Bon Tempo Milford, MA, US...
...Mr Hall credited a “very thorough” letter from the Wodehouse Society for allaying any possible concerns about his wartime conduct....
...I have always loved this Brideshead Revisited line, and the picnic scene from the 1980s television series, adapted from Evelyn Waugh’s novel, has long given me aesthetic inspiration....
...Email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com or follow him on Instagram @lukeedwardhall Take a masterclass in interior design with Luke here Letter in response to this column Forlorn flower needs love / From Evelyn...
...Each novel is only about 200 pages, and Powell has a light funny style similar to his contemporary Evelyn Waugh, so it’s not a deep dive....
...This phrase occurred to me the other night, as I walked from Potters Fields along the river towards the Royal Festival Hall in London....
...Evelyn Waugh himself might grudgingly approve....
...They had an almost symbiotic relationship with their work — Evelyn completed William’s novels, William devised new formulas for Evelyn’s paints — and this extended to politics....
...He climbs twice a week; his T-shirt says Sterk, the name of his local bouldering hall in Utrecht. The word means “strong” in Dutch....
...Reviewing the sixth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time in 1962, Anthony Powell’s long-time friend and some-time rival Evelyn Waugh paid generous tribute....
...Evelyn de Rothschild Letter in response to this letter: Scouts are not like Boris / From Héctor Eduardo Luisi Two Rothschilds in three days is one too many / From David Tulanian...
...The medieval City had been a place of narrow alleys and jerry-built wharves punctuated by the occasional grand house, church tower or guild hall....
...It isn’t the first time a school building has won the prize — in 2011 Zaha Hadid won with her dramatic designs for another South London school, the Evelyn Grace Academy....
...It is precisely because the BBC is so precious that it must adapt: a rule that Tony Hall, its director-general, implemented successfully at the Royal Opera House and should stick to once more....
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