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...The £20 Bloody Mary is not twice as good as one costing £10, but the person who brings it will be twice as personable....
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...“Today, I pinch myself,” says Sir George Iacobescu shortly after we take our seats in the leafy garden of the Arts Club, a stately townhouse in London’s Mayfair, tucked between the Ritz and Berkeley Square...
...Wintour came of age in late 1960s in London — amid Beatlemania, The Rolling Stones, and the thigh-baring skirts of Mary Quant....
...Packed with photographs and anecdotes — including an eye-opening tale of partying with Warhol and friends at the Ritz as a young man — it is a memoir of a peculiarly British shaman....
...Job moves Lazard has named Mary Ann Betsch, a managing director at Citadel, as its next chief financial officer....
...“This is the most desolate place in the world,” wrote Mary Shelley in 1816, standing on the same spot, Montenvers, and looking out over what was now known, thanks to Windham’s description, as the Mer de...
...Besides two golf courses, a tennis centre and a Ritz-Carlton hotel, it houses several residential communities including Pineapple Hill and Plantation Estates....
...Mary Trump detailed the psychological flaws of her uncle Donald (who is now suing her, accusing her of leaking his tax affairs)....
...The Ritz Restaurant I’d been in London for almost a decade before I set foot in the Ritz, that is until my partner and I were invited for an end-of-year celebratory lunch by a pair of friends a couple of...
...And The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy, which is like taking vitamins for anybody who’s a writer – the structure is a radical one for biography and the humour relentless....
...“It is not a hovel like Lady Mary Wortley’s château of which she used to brag to the Florentines.” Lady Mary, his senior, is his superior in the art of Georgian letter-writing....
...It was designed by architects Leslie Graham Thomson and Arthur Davis, the latter known for his work on the Ritz in London and the ocean liners Aquitania and the Queen Mary....
...Hotels, and in particular the Ritz, became the models for first-class interiors, which now had comfortable beds, porcelain washbasins and en suite facilities....
...Over coffee in the Rivoli bar at the Ritz, where she is staying, Ms Seitz says her first few months at Russell have been “great”. “It’s been a whirlwind but incredibly energising,” she says....
...If I also act on my retirement plan and take a pâtisserie course from the chefs at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris, I may even have enough to pay two nurses....
...In the original trial, the judge, Justice Caulfield, instructed the jury to take account of the bearing of Lord Archer’s wife, Mary. “Has she elegance?” he asked in his summing up. “Has she fragrance?...
...Except for a paltry few, such as the Ritz Bar and Harry’s, Paris’s great cocktail bars faded....
...Finally, there is the body – tomato juice for a Bloody Mary, red vermouth for a Manhattan, and so on....
...Shahidha Bari, 30, a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London was with a group of her students, most of whom had taken part in the student protest march last year....
...Also, it appears opposite Mary Quant, and the contrast is so extreme: I think that’s why I put those two together....
...Seasoned guides took us round the place where the Virgin Mary was said to have lived and where Paul, some claim, wrote his letter to the Ephesians....
...Costa gets respectful attention at The Ritz. A waiter brings his usual drink, a Virgin Mary....
...As they crash, the restof us arise to the glorious fresh coat of snow that fell while they were making merry with Mary....
...Mary Tanner , president, World Council of Churches. Jacqueline Wilson , children's author and former children's laureate....
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