Sublime

Mr. S put Karloff up there with the Barrymores. The only stars in Hollywood he may have admired as much were Bogart and Fred Astaire. He had met the horror icon on a studio lot in the late forties and had been bowled over by what an English gentleman he was. Karloff’s real name was William Henry Pratt and his two great passions in life were cricket

In 1681 the directorship was taken over by the recklessly aggressive Sir Josiah Child, who had started his career supplying beer to the navy in Portsmouth, and who was described by the diarist John Evelyn as ‘an overgrown and suddenly monied man … most sordidly avaricious’.81

Flagler spared no expense to make his new wife happy. As she had once remarked that she had always wanted “a marble palace,” Flagler built one for her: a mansion overlooking Lake Worth, which they named Whitehall, and which was to become a fabled center of the Palm Beach social scene.

Royal Naval Division (RND), a new infantry force under the control of the Admiralty rather than the Army.

And yet, for the Victorian tourists, Gough’s Cave was ticking a lot of boxes. With its walkways, impressive displays (if not all home-grown) of stalactites and stalagmites, and aesthetically pleasing fake pools, it was starting to out-compete the neighbouring show-cave, run by Gough’s cousins – the Cox brothers. The rivalry between the cousins spil

We took George to Julie’s Restaurant in Portland Road on the first day he was there. This restaurant served as our canteen from then on, as he liked it so much. It was one of my favorite restaurants, just off Ladbroke Grove. The restaurant was laid out in individual rooms, each one with its own décor and style. The owner, Julie Hodgess, had found t

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