Hints and tips:
...Guests including actress and Valentino ambassador Florence Pugh arrived in full eveningwear to sip champagne before taking their seats by the fountains....
...Chris GilesAnd I think the other thing that will happen in the election will be the old-fashioned Ronald Reagan to Jimmy Carter question, “do you feel better off than five years ago?”...
...For the only time I can recall on such a trip, she asked the RAF stewards to break out champagne....
...“A couple of glasses of scotch and soda before lunch and French champagne. And 90-year-old brandy before I go to sleep at night.”...
...Huppert, who is married to film-maker Ronald Chammah and has three children, has worked with some of the greatest French directors but has no nostalgia....
...Moda Operandi was an update of the trunk show, a US sales model where clients pre-order clothes from new collections at champagne-quaffing events hosted by designers or stores....
...Three decades ago, Ronald Reagan declared “Morning in America” after years of economic turmoil. His timing was perfect. Several years of boom ensued....
...In the 1930s and 1940s, Ronald and Nancy Tree (she later remarried to become Nancy Lancaster) created their masterwork of English country-house style at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire; Ronald bought the furniture...
...Predecessor Powell had left Brady a welcome present – champagne and a bulletproof vest....
...I opt for mushrooms on toast and, having braced myself for shrieked demands for expensive champagne from my guest, hide my disappointment when she politely requests sparkling water....
...One of the best raconteurs is Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank. Aged 73, he is still an inveterate traveller....
...“It keeps me in champagne, my engine oil,” he said....
...The son of a Tory naval officer, Hitchens was educated at a minor public school and Oxford, where he became a champagne Trotskyite....
...Ronald Blom, 75, was sizing up the big stand, so I asked him if he could have done it any better....
...Not quite good enough, perhaps, to open the champagne, though one might venture a modest glass of tequila....
...This scenario belongs not to Hollywood but to Richard Clarke, who has served four presidents, from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, as national security adviser....
...When the prosecutor asked her if she remembered what kind of champagne he had given her, she told him, “1971 something”....
...The owners will get together and race each other for a bottle of champagne,” says David Pitman who runs the J Class Association....
...Ronald Reagan 38. John Major 39. Saddam Hussein 40. Imelda Marcos 41. Angela Merkel 42. Adolf Hitler 43. Richard Branson 44. Eva Peron 45. Stalin 46....
...His argument was echoed late last year by Ronald Lauder, one of the heirs to Estée Lauder’s cosmetics empire, who is known for his art collection and his central European media empire....
...Cohen hospitably offers me a glass of champagne. His office clearly did not pass on the message that lunch is on the Financial Times. We both decide against champagne. He orders a Coca-Cola instead....
...It is a question of champagne versus beer and this is a nation more weaned on hops than grapes. onohana@aol.com...
...Soros drank an espresso and, a few minutes later, a final champagne toast with the last of his guests....
...Mr Johnson said Sir Ronald Cohen, the private equity pioneer who expressed qualified support for reform, was “a champagne socialist, who would say that, having made his pile and retired”....
...I wanted to be able to raise a champagne glass and welcome the year 2000 with my friends. I didn’t want to spend New Year’s Eve in bed with a textbook of Akkadian grammar....
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