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...Jack was sickly as a child, resented by his mother for his seeming weakness, outshone by his glamorous older sister, Evelyn....
...This clashed with his elder second cousin Evelyn de Rothschild’s more conservative vision. Ultimately Evelyn, a major shareholder, prevailed....
...One Day echoes the same themes of class, aspiration and opportunity best explored in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited....
...A scion of the well-known British banking dynasty, he left the family business after a dispute with his cousin Evelyn. Read more about on the life of the City veteran....
...The sport of defining a dwindling and then enfeebled aristocracy (in postwar Labour Britain) was also seized on by John Betjeman and Evelyn Waugh. The whole debate is extremely silly....
...Evelyn Waugh once chastised his wife for writing him a letter “as dull as [her] life”, adding “I am simply not interested in Bridget’s children. Do grasp that.”...
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...His portrait of the senior civil servant at the Ministry of Justice, with his modern art collection and pompous jargon, could come from the pages of Evelyn Waugh....
...Evelyn, 23, a butcher’s assistant, voted for Milei last year. “Before I liked him 10/10, now I’d say 7/10,” she says. “I think the measures he’s taking will start to have an effect . . ....
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...The story was strong: as climate change generated increasing concern, ESG funds were better positioned for the future....
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...More stylised and more straightforwardly comedic, it uses an uproarious Greek chorus of local gossips to fill out the story of 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell), who resolves to make it on her own after...
...The ending is one of the most staggering since Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust....
...If he realises that his life often reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, he doesn’t show it. Stourton took a once typical route into broadcasting....
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...Unfortunately, ours are not. 17th-century gardener, diarist and polymath John Evelyn announces that he will make a salad....
...Evelyn Hart is a galumphing but strangely graceful Alice, though her story never engages us....
...More important than the story is the atmosphere, and this is where the book’s elephantine bulk becomes necessary....
...I arrive at Brideshead, the stately home of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, with its wide staircases, marble pillars and unlimited wine cellar....
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