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...On the lifeboat’s port-side bow, in a mosaic of donors’ names making up its identification number, two stood out: Harold Charles Underwood. Dorothy Gladys Underwood. Both born in 1920....
...The story that most experts agree on is that an Italian chef, Renato Gualandi, first made it in 1944 at a dinner in Riccione for the US army with guests including Harold Macmillan....
...As midsummer arrived, I peered over at my neighbour Harold’s perfect crop with envy....
...The lust list currently includes a Josef Frank découpage Flora cabinet, a curvy 1950s Alvar Aalto pine screen and immaculate Hans Wegner armchairs in oak and cane....
..., the fine Kentish garden made by Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicolson. I tended to think that there was not....
...It is there in his tonal “Avenue of Poplars in Autumn” (1884), featuring a woman in mourning as a pilgrim, and in the fragmented pines leaning towards each other in flamboyant disarray on a pink footway...
...There aren’t enough fiddles, there aren’t enough bows and soon there won’t be enough pines to burn. Do you believe in an afterlife? Yes, but not in the storybook sense....
...The hard light of the Florentine summer is filtered by holm oaks and stone pines as numerous statues cast dark shadows across the terraces and parterres of clipped box....
...Planting has been kept simple, with the pre-existing pines augmented with weeping willow (Salix babylonica) and acers....
...His memories of Britain’s king of shrubs, Harold Hillier in Hampshire, are invaluable both as history and as a gardening lesson....
...Harold Macmillan, the then Tory prime minister, claimed that UK voters had “never had it so good”. SuperMac, he was styled....
...The paths are left with natural coverings of pine needles and the mood is close to nature, global though the planting is....
...It bypassed Pakenham’s sister, Antonia Fraser, who became a London-based historian, mother and eventual wife of Harold Pinter....
...Ranging from a compact 20 sq metres to five times that, they have pitch-pine walls, heated floors and immaculate white bathrooms....
...many musicians can claim to have played with the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, experimented with jazz, poetry and Indian classical music, performed at 10 Downing Street for prime minister Harold...
...No Turning Back, in short, fills an important gap, but occasionally one pines for the stimulating wilfulness of AN Wilson’s comparable Our Times....
...What probably got me started is that my grandfather, Harold Toksvig, was a professional artist....
...On a nearby hillside, the famous Oxford aesthete and historian Harold Acton also had his fine villa....
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