Hints and tips:
...A fatigued-looking redcoat stumps by with a duffel bag under his arm....
...But with disposable incomes already being squeezed by rising inflation, the ability of some tenants to stump up is under threat....
...Even Francis Bacon had a stint designing rooms in the 1930s (rubber curtains were a speciality). There is an art to being a good client too....
...Seventy years later, Calton’s grandson Francis found himself in financial difficulty and sold the estate to the actor-manager Edward Alleyn, who founded Dulwich College there....
...The top lot is a Francis Bacon triptych, carrying an estimate of $60m. Even in the excitement of a live event, multimillion-dollar bids do not arrive out of the blue....
...Marsyas’s wide, screaming mouth called to mind Francis Bacon’s popes....
...As Mrs May puts it in her campaign stump speech, this election demands that voters forget their past political allegiances and instead back the Conservatives “in the national interest”....
...(Gawker) RubioBot’s panic button A series of gaffes have seen Senator Marco Rubio stuck in a seemingly infinite loop of repeating portions of his stump speech – whether on the debate stage or out on the...
...Stump up £12,750 and you can take away the clock. Or perhaps you would prefer his own elegant mahogany desk?...
...That changed in 2009 when Egdon partnered with eCorp, a private Houston-based shale explorer, which agreed to stump up the funds for drilling one exploration well in the Gainsborough....
...But the building has been known as “the stump” since work by the contractor Brookfield Multiplex stopped almost a year ago....
...built to just seven storeys and Brookfield has vacated the site and removed all its signage – a move that is understood to be driven by embarrassment at being associated with a project now known as “the stump...
...Beneath prints of Francis Bacon triptychs, an uncomfortable discussion has caused grimaces: costs are to rise and trading will become more expensive....
...Fizzlebert Stump and the Bearded Boy, by AF Harrold, Bloomsbury, RRP£5.99, 272 pages The circus inspectors are coming and their timing couldn’t be worse, since the performers’ acts are being sabotaged...
...Twin Pines is organised around trees – or rather, this being Garfield, stumps. The stump symbolises the soul, the programme says – stunted, with the possibility of later growth....
...Referring to the scare stories peddled by some ministers about the likely impact of cuts, the ally added: “Ken can spot a bleeding stump a mile off.”...
...Pinocchio’s wooden body, the turning of his legs into glowing stumps as he sits too close to the fire, and his endlessly extending nose, are all impressively conjured up by designer Francis O’Connor, as...
...In his recently published polemic The Great City Academy Fraud, Francis Beckett quotes the man who was BP’s education adviser in the 1980s, when the Conservatives sought business backing for city technology...
...Taylor, no stranger to asking the super rich to stump up to help improve state schools, had one of his fastest responses from Sullivan, who sent a £50,000 cheque by return of post....
...Losses included important works by Francis Bacon, Jan Steen and the aforementioned Blakes, collectively worth more than £30m. The current system was set up in 1952....
...Senator John McCain’s essay on courage is particularly interesting - a ready-made stump speech for 2008?...
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