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...The third, dean’s List, is a euphemism for the children of people who have donated a lot of money....
...He once hid in Dean Martin’s dressing room, just to photograph him in those fleeting moments before he went on stage....
...First up, however, is Kemp House on Berwick Street in Soho, which in the spirit of the book I reached on public transport via the Elizabeth Line to nearby Dean Street....
...In 1937 the Dean of Westminster was about to set the colobium sindonis (the white linen shift beneath his robe) on King George VI inside out....
...A Harold Pinter-scripted 1990 adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale largely lacked the ingenuity and simmering anger of Margaret Atwood’s novel; the Hulu TV version, meanwhile, has been a cultural phenomenon...
...Serving during the war with General Eisenhower in Algiers, Harold Macmillan coined the conceit that Britain could act as Greece to America’s Rome....
...In Britain it began with Lord Hailsham, a minister in Harold Macmillan’s Tory cabinet, denouncing homosexuals as perverts and paedophiles....
...The former US secretary of state, Dean Acheson, is often remembered in Britain for his wounding remark about the nation’s failure to find a post-imperial role....
...The most famous improvement was a pergola more than 100 yards long, designed by the famous landscape architect Harold Peto....
...It took an emergency summit between prime minister Harold Macmillan and president John Kennedy for the US to substitute the much more appropriate Polaris missile....
...“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods . . . a rapture on the lonely shore,” wrote Lord Byron in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. The wilderness has long been a source of inspiration for artists....
...He was in part responding to US secretary of state Dean Acheson’s taunt that Britain had lost an empire and not found a role....
...Under Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, a working group belonging to the “Official Committee on Communism (Home)” met periodically to discuss intelligence....
...Harold Cook, a Texas Democratic strategist in Austin, says: “Democrats are always faced with those sorts of choices....
...Britain was last here in the early 1960s when the US secretary of state Dean Acheson made his wounding observation that the effort to cling on to past greatness was “just about played out”....
...Harold Macmillan, the then prime minister, felt obliged to rebuke the US secretary of state publicly. Privately, he all but agreed with him....
...Philadelphia-born artist Graham Caldwell has also made a number of works for AIE....
...Simon Russell Beale is in superb form as the tormented dean....
...Fellow habitués Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley were no less renowned for their glinting apercus than Dorothy Parker, and yet posterity has cruelly cast them as her entourage....
...John Donne held a special fascination, for his language and imagery and his shift “from the licentious man about town to the devout dean of St Paul’s”, as Pirie told James Stourton, the former Sotheby’s...
...Those who have ostentatiously stayed away – the UK’s David Cameron, Barack Obama of the US and France’s François Hollande – are following what the critic Harold Rosenberg once called “the herd of independent...
...Harold Hamm, one of the most successful billionaires to have made a fortune from the US shale boom, must pay his ex-wife about $973m in a divorce settlement, or about 7 per cent of his estimated $14bn net...
...Duncan Minshull is editor of ‘While Wandering’ (Vintage £10.99) Illustration by Finn Dean...
...This week a report by two MIT professors, computer scientist Harold Abelson and Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond, and a former federal prosecutor found the university not culpable in Swartz’s...
...Elizabeth Daley, dean of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, believes writing today is like Latin on the eve of the Renaissance – the language of a scholarly establishment....
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