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...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...She’s a tiny vision in black: big boots, what look like leather leggings and a zippy fleece, topped off incongruously with a trilby-like hat. Meeting a movie star, you feel your every inadequacy....
...Evelyn de Rothschild dies aged 91 The British banker, who advised the late Queen Elizabeth II on financial matters, has died “after a short illness”, the family said yesterday....
...The Bell Inn is not one of those honeyed stone classics, gazing smugly out on to an immaculate Cotswold village green, with wide-enough parking bays for Range Rovers and a suspiciously unmuddied boot rack...
...But packing off employees with their hiking boots and wet-weather gear requires an added layer of effort on everyone’s part, employer and employee alike. So, is it really worth it?...
...The feathered feet of Evelyn Waugh’s questing vole are never far away....
...The Tasmanian coastal town of Evelyn Bay has grim associations for Kieran — his brother died there, and a young woman vanished — but the past is not dead....
...The British, who dubbed the US-backed 1953 coup in Iran “Operation Boot” and the Suez conspiracy “Operation Musketeer”, sometimes seem to leap from the pages of Evelyn Waugh....
...trip accompanied by the body in the boot....
...A Short Walk begins with a glowing introduction by Evelyn Waugh, who astutely identifies “the essential amateurism of the English” as the bedrock of all native travel writing....
...A specialist in the Oxford brogue, Duckers sold the novelist Evelyn Waugh about 20 pairs of shoes and boots between 1930 and 1946....
...The glutinous sentimentality of his blog (“I stood at the edge of this puddle in the fading light of the year and of my own years”) hilariously rivals the rustic effusions of William Boot in Evelyn Waugh...
...Had Steven Runciman not actually lived, someone, perhaps Evelyn Waugh, would have invented him....
...Unfortunately the idea of the Rt Hon William Boot is too close to reality to be really funny....
...As soon as I entered, he called to the staff: “Get me my boots.” “What do you want your boots for, Tata?” one asked. “George is here. He will take me to Qunu,” he answered....
...Evelyn Lapat, a former counsellor at a rehab centre, has helped many young women returned from the bush. Lapat herself was abducted for about three months in 1997....
...The title Spoiler echoes Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s satire of newspapers in 1930s, and so does the plot....
...William Boot demanded of the Daily Beast’s foreign editor on being invited to report on an African civil war in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s immortal 1938 comic novel of journalism....
...Newby wore hobnailed boots with a hemp rope tied round his waist. As I shiver on the belays, I note how the rock is polished by the feet of countless other climbers....
...But his status as a “treasure” owed less to those achievements than to Evelyn Waugh, who is supposed to have based the hapless William Boot in his novel Scoop on him, and also to Private Eye, as the recipient...
...The only heavy things are my vitamins and my hiking boots. I always say, ‘If you can figure out your suitcase, you can figure out your life.’”...
...But he also achieved fame outside Fleet Street as the model for one of Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated characters, William Boot, in his novel Scoop....
...In Guillaume Canet’s thriller, Tell No One, she is tanned, tousle-haired, cigarette-waving, expressive of gesture and a lesbian to boot. “French, you mean?” Exactly....
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