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...If “apples” was an idiom for a certain kind of crazy, the way “nuts” or “bananas” are, Patrick Tallec would be “apples”....
...towards Mrs Sullen sloughs off its amiable trickery; Sullen and his wife agree, with a kind of unanimous hostility, to divorce, but then Sullen refuses to return his wife’s dowry and pretty much all the gentry...
...In 1911 David Lloyd George first introduced pay for members of parliament, transforming what had been a part-time evening pursuit for the landed gentry....
...The author has been compared to cult noirist Derek Raymond, but here on a broader canvas she enters a pantheon of writers exploring London lowlife that extends from Patrick Hamilton and Colin MacInnes....
...He lives in the house with his mother and plans the landscape with his recently appointed head gardener, Patrick Pottier....
...We are a quality manufacturer,” explained Patrick Thomas, president of Hermès, whose post-show, suitably tricky-to-produce snacks included foie gras in apricot and truffles in micro-light wafers....
...It’s gruelling and humiliating work, ferrying merchandise and “gentry” who treat him as if he were “of no more account than a bollard”....
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