Hints and tips:
...John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
...Harry recalls meeting Princess Margaret at a family Christmas where the Queen’s elderly and embittered sister had bought him a present, which turned out to be a biro....
...Make a hole for each cutting near the side of the pot, where the drainage is usually better: I use a defunct thick old biro for that purpose....
...Comes the happy end eventual,and comes the happy biro....
...For the next 15 years or so it slowly turned red with Biro’d-in routes but, eventually, wore right down to flitters in the bottom of my bag....
...Previously a teacher, Dexter had the idea of writing a crime series while holidaying in Wales in the 1970s — “and then he got a Biro and an A4 pad and just wrote it....
...The scene in the run-up to December 25, circa 1984: while other 10-year-olds are poring over the Argos catalogue in search of a Girl’s World or a ZX Spectrum to add to their Christmas list, I have my Biro...
...In The Second Term of Viktor Orban, conservative thinker John O’Sullivan writes that Orban believed his failure occurred because “most of the institutions of society, privatised industry and media in particular...
...Today you’d buy disposable biros or a refill — but ‘pen repair’? It’s part of our everyday culture that’s just slipped away.”...
...His “low-riding”, loose-fitting trousers are usually accompanied by threadbare shirts, often open to the chest and covered in biro marks....
...Bought the licence from a Mr Biro, or Bíró, to be exact, and the rest is history. Notebooks? I’m partial to Leuchtturm1917 with the gusseted pocket and ribbon markers for my bullet-journaling....
...Christian Sewing has nevertheless replaced John Cryan as chief executive of Deutsche Bank....
...It was below freezing and one man was sitting on a mattress writing with a biro. He said, “I hope you don’t mind me being here.”...
...Those stubby little biros about three inches long?...
...My spur was this: the book I had started to read only moments before had disappeared under mounting piles of stuff – thank-you letters (one, shockingly, in Biro), greetings cards from a year’s worth of birthdays...
...Like many illnesses that are now viewed as relatively minor, it was far more serious in the days before antibiotics – the utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill died of it....
...For John Boyd Dunlop it was the year of the pneumatic tyre, originally invented for his son’s tricycle....
...Instead there was a scribble in black Biro from the postman who signed off as “David” and is a history buff: “I liked his work and just wanted to send my condolences.”...
...I wrote them all out in longhand on ruled paper using a blue Biro. Then I got them typed up by a dear old lady down the road....
...Among the show’s highlights are a display of “biro paintings”....
...Everyone uses them without thinking and, if people don’t like them – well, at least Biros are cheap....
...Biro takes the punch line as his title, and means it....
...Elton John might be proud to be gay, but he has spent untold amounts of money having his thinning crown replanted because of the shame of a hairless head....
...Its glass surface was piled with two stacks of paper and in between them was a Perspex holder containing a few cheap biros....
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