Hints and tips:
...In cricket, what’s the collective word for byes, leg byes, wides and no balls? The name for which haircut was derived from its popularity among rowers in American Ivy League universities?...
...When a female bee comes out, the males fly at her, forming what scientists call “mating balls”. Every three years, in June, we have balls on our college lawn, but they are totally different occasions....
...We’d go swimming, play ball games, or go water skiing. We’d still have a Christmas tree and everything like that, but food-wise it would be salads and yams and cold meat because it was 30 degrees....
...Sutton also uses things from her garden: dried hydrangeas for the mantelpiece and ivy up the banister....
...In the courtyard below, the palazzo’s garden is deep in hibernation, all leafless grey ivy vines and fallow flowerbeds: but here, banana palms sprout next to rivers and huge ficus trees spread shade over...
...Usually, densely planted pots are under-watered, being wet only for the first few inches of their ball of soil....
...Whatever his sniffy opinion, we will continue our dig for victory against docks, nettles, brambles, ground elder and ivy, won’t we?...
...Mack is all too aware of his non-Ivy League background, lacking the “Mayflower manners of previous hires” and delighted to put the fear of God into “frat-house charm balls who needed a motivated kick in...
...I like a garland made from fir or pine, and into this I’ll weave holly and ivy, maybe some eucalyptus....
...Taylor’s task of compressing the contents of 26 diaries into one hefty book may explain the absence of any hint of a normal life as Rickman glides from suppers at the Ivy to a Lebedev Christmas do....
...modelling, the Brooklyn-born creative settled on the life of a painter, and his 2019 debut show won over the art world with its high-colour oil observations of the bourgeoisie at leisure, young romance and Ivy...
...“Oh, I think Hong Kong will bounce back like a rubber ball.” Really? “Yes, and higher than when it dropped. It’s very resilient. People are hard-working, focused....
...She says she was looking at a bucket of balls; he thought she was looking at him. It is possible that both things are true....
...Finally, the Brookings Institution’s Richard Reeves wrote a powerful rebuke of the Ivy League legacy system, which was originally conceived to keep out Jewish Americans, and which has become an entrenched...
...A huge bear of a man with a grizzled beard, Miller had not followed the usual gold-plated road from Ivy League law school to Wall Street....
...Colin wants to give his son a shot at gaining entry to a top-tier Ivy League university in the US. The annual price tag for all this schooling? $100,000 and rising....
...“He does not have to do any of this,” said Ahmed Reza, a son of Bangladeshi immigrants whose Ivy League schooling two decades ago was paid by Milken’s foundation....
...The hems should finish at the ball of your ankle, but if they don’t, just roll them up until they do....
...You know, those big companies that will only hire from Ivy League or Oxbridge or the great European universities. Be more open, think laterally....
...But recent years have seen its quainter charms eroded by newcomers: among the arrivals are a hot yoga studio, an Ivy restaurant and a beauty parlour called FaceGym....
...But it was football that paid for his Ivy League education....
...Our decorating starts with us gathering holly, ivy and rosemary from the garden. This is a classic, elegant way to bring the magic of the season indoors....
...Ivy League nerds who once aspired to be Masters of the Universe increasingly now wield their complex spreadsheets to orchestrate action on ball fields and playing courts....
...You know, he was from Delaware, went to the University of Delaware, wasn't an Ivy League kid....
...Sprigs of holly and tangles of ivy will look lovely clustered around candles in the middle of your lunch table (though I must say, stray pine cones leave me puzzled). First: a good foundation....
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