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...fails majority / From Kai L Chan, Abu Dhabi, UAE Ivy League credentials of those ruling on education / From Harold J Smith, White Plains, NY, US...
...Kai L Chan Abu Dhabi, UAE...
...In the courtyard below, the palazzo’s garden is deep in hibernation, all leafless grey ivy vines and fallow flowerbeds: but here, banana palms sprout next to rivers and huge ficus trees spread shade over...
...Whenever I visit in September I am ashamed at my potted pelargoniums compared with hers, ranging from two ivy-leaved variegated varieties, Rose Silver Cascade and L’Elegante, to two Uniques, Scarlet and...
...I interviewed him earlier this month, sat on bar stools at the far end of Brutto’s L-shaped bar (this was, he said, his personal “best table”)....
...I noticed recently on 1stdibs a c1890 Minton majolica tureen shaped like an ivy-covered basket. What an addition to my festive table this would be....
...Overhead, the arms of the metal chandelier hanging from the white-painted, wooden-beamed ceiling are wrapped in faux ivy....
...It forms an L-shape with the shorter naval wing, for those convicted of misdemeanours on the high seas....
...Thirty years ago, when I first peered through the hoardings, the tomb was an overgrown ruin covered in a tangle of weeds and ivy....
...“Full credit to L&G for asking me, but how high is the bar? I am 57, this is the first time I have been approached....
...The kings of the Ivy League to fast food route, however, may be Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane....
...In the grander sitting room upstairs, trompe-l’oeil fluted columns and floral garlands surround pastorals, under a spectacular ceiling whose timber beams and supports are covered in rich botanical and scroll...
...Seersucker, a westernised mangling of the poetic Persian shirushakar came into style-aware wardrobes from India during the jazz age (it was popular with Gatsby-era Ivy Leaguers, Palm Beachers and — inevitably...
...In French, to leave a party without saying goodbye is to leave à l’anglaise. In American English, it’s sometimes called an “Irish goodbye”....
...French design company Koziel produces wallpapers that give the illusion of mossy bricks, slate, climbing ivy, rusted tin tiles and industrial steel beams....
...The aim is neat, but not overly prim and proper — so play around with proportions and add Ivy League flourishes such as oversized blanket-knit school scarves (this round of preppy power-dressing borrows...
...Yet academic Rebecca L Spang has dismissed the story as an urban myth....
...Ramsay 8 The Square 9 Marcus 10 Medlar Best for business: 1 The Wolseley 2 The Delaunay 3 The Square 4 Galvin La Chapelle 5 Bleeding Heart 6 The Don 7 Coq d’Argent 8 Scott’s 9 L’...
...The band wore carnivalesque outfits – multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne in a glittery cape, her husband-frontman Win Butler with trompe l’oeil eye mask painted on his face – and they were joined by...
...Ivy and Ficus pumila cover the high brick wall bordering the garden at the rear, while the lawn at its base is empty, interrupted only by L-shaped stepping stones set into the ground....
...Ivy and lichen grow over the Victorian gravestones, including the graves of Walter Pater and JW Burgon, poet of ‘Petra’ – ‘a rose red city half as old as time’....
...Our biggest companies, such as L’Oréal, Accor, etc . . . were created by entrepreneurs....
...For cricket, food and wine lovers there is the chance to catch up with Matthew Engel, Rowley Leigh and Jancis Robinson at Le Café Anglais, L’Anima and The Ledbury, respectively....
...A mention in the Preppy Handbook helped established companies such as Brooks Brothers and L.L....
...There can be silver animal sculptures on the table, a club fender, porcelain vases hidden on the mantelpiece under mounds of holly and ivy during the festive period, decanters of varying designs holding...
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