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...Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker (Allen Lane)This group biography with a difference looks at the defining impact of the countryside...
...A third archetype, of the hypersexual Jezebel, is embodied by Josephine Baker in jazz-age Paris....
...Necheles started out working with Frederick Hafetz, a legend of New York’s white-collar bar, whose high-profile clients included a procession of Italian mobsters, a former Miss America and Lady Astor’s son...
...Frederick Douglass? Reinhold Niebuhr? Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Jane Addams? W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...Things for the Barclay twins — Frederick and David — came to a head in January when the former discovered that The Ritz conservatory, where he enjoyed a cigar and conversations with his only daughter Amanda...
...For comfort reading, which so often means re-reading, few books beat The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and not just because I live round the corner from 221b Baker Street...
...Eventually I had a grand mal fit on Baker Street station....
...There, he worked with Frederick Parker of the company that would become Parker Knoll, and became life-long friends with Ted Gomme, who would go on to found G Plan in the 1950s....
...In his 1894 handbook for professional bakers, Practical Pastry: a Handbook for Pastry-bakers, Cooks and Confectioners, Frederick T Vine’s recipe calls for 20lb butter, 40lb mixed peel, 90lb currants and...
...The war over the minimum wage — Peter C Baker for the Guardian Long Read A high-paying job? Go to app boot camp?...
...Takeo Yamaguchi’s “Kō (Suburbs)” is at Gregg Baker Asian Art, alongside fellow 20th-century Japanese artists Hisao Dōmoto and Suda Kokuta....
...Photographs: Wayne Cable; Slaven Vlasic/Getty; Frederick Breedon/Getty; David Pollack/Corbis via Getty...
...Bettys started in 1919 when Frederick Belmont, a Swiss confectioner, married a local woman and opened his first Bettys Café Tea Rooms in Harrogate....
...The book concludes with the horrible tale of “Sweet Fanny Adams”, aged only eight when she was dismembered by a young clerk called Frederick Baker....
...“Nafta is the linchpin of our current economic competitiveness,” Frederick Smith, the chief executive officer of FedEx, declared last month....
...So far this year plaques have also been awarded to Bobby Moore, Sir George Grove, Sir Frederick Ashton, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Elizabeth David, Tommy Cooper, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Blackett and Benjamin Baker...
...Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms has been a Yorkshire institution for almost 100 years, founded by Frederick Belmont, a Swiss baker and confectioner who emigrated to Britain in 1919 and — legend has it — erroneously...
...Yorkshire Bratwurst with Switzerland’s signature potato dish and a magnificent Swiss chocolate creation, Fritz (alias Frederick) would have been proud....
...“Here McDonald’s is about family entertainment,” said Frederick Burke, a Ho Chi Minh City-based partner at Baker & McKenzie, the law firm, and a long-time Vietnam resident....
...In 1996, he founded MPRL E&P, his other main company, which ran an oilfield as a joint venture with Baker Hughes, taking full control in 1999 when the US company pulled out....
...Mr Baker’s experience is an example of how powerful digital learning can be....
...The house is surrounded by a garden inspired by the late 19th-century work of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted....
...Selections by Barry Forshaw … SCIENCE FICTION Terminus , by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£7.99 The third in Baker’s series of viscerally claustrophobic end-of-the-world novels has Manhattan destroyed...
...In 2010, Grupo Bimbo, the Mexican baker, announced the purchase of Sara Lee, the US baker, in a deal initially estimated at US$959m....
...SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Juggernaut , by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£6.99 In a year crowded with zombie fiction, Baker’s second novel stands out....
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