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...She is on the board of Evelyn Partners, accountants to prime minister Rishi Sunak....
...Later, the Agnellis, the Siemens, Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley, who wrote his first novel in Forte, holidayed here, ushering in decades of glitz....
...“This is a historical moment . . . a bit of a ‘what the f***’ moment,” said Pascal Gauthier, chief executive of digital wallet provider Ledger. “It shows that no one is too big to fail....
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...The final winning point: I had looked everywhere for an English translation of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, by Robert Musil, in many countries....
...her as the Gatsby of our circle — London fashion and magazine people, and those drawn to that scene — if it weren’t for the fact that rather than watching anonymously from afar, in the elusive manner of F...
...Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, will testify in front of Congress on Thursday, when he is likely to face criticism for not banning prominent anti-vaxxers such as Robert F Kennedy Jr....
...But my local great reveal is on the F train in Brooklyn. The train sets free at a height and hugs a curve, bending us down into the city and revolving it, like a plane or a planet....
...And that is where you get this merry cry of ‘F**k it!’ “You know the famous episode, where he says his favourite quotation from Shakespeare is ‘Take the f**king money!’...
...In one contrarian aside, the narrator prefers the “often enthralling” stories of Arthur Conan Doyle over Marcel Proust or Thomas Mann because Sherlock Holmes’s creator is “an exceptional page turner”....
...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....
...“The f**k is wrong with you?”...
...But he’ll also tell you that if you don’t like it, ‘F**k off — there’s the door.’”...
...The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce. Which books will be sold here in 20 years, if any books are sold here at all?...
...shouldn’t be the number one destination for local and international tourists alike if it is developed with sustainability in mind,” says Caleb Baker, an Australian who works for staffing company Alexander Mann...
...As President John F Kennedy said in 1962, “the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”....
...“Does she want to bring down the whole f***ing government?” said one. Another said: “It’s fine to report for harassment, but for making a lewd comment to a colleague?”...
...Over lunch, the 49-year-old hurtles his way to the end of each sentence without pause, using “f**k” the way millennials use “like”: constantly....
...Productivity guru Merlin Mann, host of a podcast called Back To Work, has a telling metaphor. Imagine making sandwiches in a deli, says Mann. In comes the first sandwich order....
...Catalpa fargesii f. duclouxii Summer flowering tree with large leaves and foxglove-like flowers in mid summer....
...It’s true that when I read Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald soon after returning from Nice, it was like having my holiday all over again....
...Ironically, another lot, a pre-edition of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (£15,000-£20,000) exposes Debo as an early Waugh reader and occasional editor....
...Paul Niven, head of multi-asset investment at F&C Investments, said: “For now markets are assuming that compromise between creditors and the Greek debtors will be reached....
...Letter in response to this article: How Grass touched another raw nerve / From John F May...
...He also claimed to have used “charm and menace” to convince the Ukrainian prime minister to change laws on behalf of the company ED&F Man....
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