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...The sort of travel for which the safari jacket was first intended was found in the pages of a novel by Rider Haggard or in a film such as 1953’s Mogambo....
...Round on the Links The link was Line of Duty Hastings Bent Mother of God Steve (Ovett and Cram) H Rider Haggard Corbett (Harry and Matthew) Kiss Me, Kate Pilkington AC/DC 12 Angry Men...
...State school first, then James Allen’s Girls’ School. Then straight to work, doing lots of odd jobs, auditioning desperately for parts and not getting them, then finally drama school at Lamda....
...The ghost of Luna’s grandfather, crotchety Old Man Moon, appears to be walking the corridors of ancestral home Haggard Hall and imprisoning her relatives in different sinister ways....
...The duo spent two decades at the helm of Pinewood Studios, the home of the James Bond and Star Wars movie franchises, before selling the company last year for £323m....
...Speaking to the EU Parliament in 2014, he called the bloc a “tired and haggard grandmother,” and last year he lamented that Europe had lost its values as a beacon of humanism....
...In November 2014 in Strasbourg he likened the EU to a “tired and haggard” grandmother — an analogy he repeated again on Friday....
...We recorded three weeks of live sessions, inviting musicians including Elton John, Willie Nelson, Ana Gabriel, Rhiannon Giddens, Raphael Saadiq, the late Merle Haggard, Jack White, Los Lobos, Steve Martin...
...The witches line up in spectral light, a trio of haggard profiles and outstretched fingers pointing to Macbeth’s doomed fate, in Henry Fuseli’s “Weird Sisters”....
...Alexandra Haggard, chief executive of Stamford Associates, the investment consultancy, says of the situation: “It is frightening. It is like a tinderbox out there....
...Pope Francis likened Europe to a barren grandmother, calling the continent “elderly and haggard” during an address to members of the European parliament that had supposedly been meant to raise the spirits...
...Propped on an elbow on crumpled white linen for “Girl in Bed”, she read Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” aloud; eyes downcast for “Girl Reading”, she absorbed herself in Henry James’ “The Tragic Muse”....
...In November, Francis also used unusually pointed — and colourful — language to criticise Europe, likening it to a “haggard” grandmother as it grapples with economic stagnation....
...Brown’s novel is serious fun, a modern SF spin on Rudyard Kipling and H Rider Haggard, with a resourceful heroine, enough derring-do to keep the pages turning, and some sincere points about imperialism....
...Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, H Rider Haggard and W Somerset Maughan are part of this caravan....
...Jefferson and his fellow Virginian James Madison were less keen....
...Less rebarbative than Jeremy Clarkson, less witty than one’s memory of the TV Clive James, he tags everything and everyone with an ironic comment....
...James Lovegrove is author of ‘The Age Of Ra’ (Solaris)...
...James Davis and Sir Allen Stanford first hatched a plot to mislead investors and regulators more than 20 years ago, according to court documents filed by the US Department of Justice....
...Wachovia’s chief executive described his haggard bank as, in many ways, the “mirror image” of its far prettier owner-to-be Wells Fargo. He wishes....
...As he writes, it was “a venture for which Rider Haggard might have written the plot and Conrad designed the scenery”....
...Charlotte James, a 29-year-old PR executive whose father was 53 when she was born, confirms much of the Carnoys’ research....
...James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, accused the “Supremes” of being guided by public opinion in western Europe, “the most liberal area of the planet”....
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