Hints and tips:
...London, spring 1926: a motley crowd of pickpockets, early shift-workers, milkmen and jaded revellers has gathered as a grey dawn breaks over Holloway Prison....
...Mike, 42, is shorter, heavier-set and speaks with a thicker Maine accent, all dropped g’s and r’s. He is bearded, goofy and charming, and wears a cap with an American flag on it....
...I was assigned to the libertarian party, a motley crew of fittingly standoffish strangers....
...Eric Lonergan, a fund manager at M&G Investments, compares the use of volatility as a proxy for risk to a “virus” that has infected the entire finance industry and gradually “corrupted” its behaviour....
...Australian opera singer Nellie Melba might have performed for them in the evenings or Nijinsky repeated the scandal of his premiere the previous year of “The Rite of Spring”....
...Last weekend, for example, the 1975 In G Major had only bland cheer to offer, despite Erté’s charming beach costumes and backdrop and glints of Rhapsody in Blue in the Ravel score....
...Motley Fool’s poll of online investors is more categoric: yesterday, 70 per cent were in favour of buying, with 14 per cent choosing to sell....
...David Plate of New York, N.Y. – formerly a registered representative at Schottenfeld and currently a registered representative at the broker-dealer G-2 Trading LLC....
...L&G: andrea.felsted@ft.com...
...B&G embarrassed itself by putting pressure on Cinven when its offer for Gondola, the restaurant company, was almost wrapped up. Polygon scuppered a private equity bid for Telent....
...There is much comedy as she drills this motley outfit into shape....
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