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“... travel and a way out of low-paid jobs. Lapara had met di Nicotera, who was then calling himself Alexander Berard, while walking into the Métro at the Tuileries. He took her back to his ‘très chic’ hotel and introduced her to Carvelli, who invited her to come to London with him and di Nicotera, along with the two other French girls they already had in ...”

“... the tumour that was successfully treated in a hospital in Tashkent (as described in Cancer Ward) after his release into exile in February 1953. Despite the cancer and residual depression, his re-entry into civilian life was easier than that of many ex-prisoners. He became a schoolteacher in exile, apparently a good one, and continued in this profession ...”

“... Florentine patrician Urban VIII canonised the Florentine patrician Andrea Corsini. The Venetian Alexander VIII canonised the Venetian Girolamo Miani. When the present Pope canonised a fellow Pole he was placing himself in a long tradition. The rules for canonisation in the 17th century required all candidates except martyrs to exhibit not only heroic virtue ...”

“... also contains a revelation: that on 14 June 1904 Joplin married a 19-year-old woman called Freddie Alexander. She died three months later. The details of this tragic affair are almost completely buried. Joplin’s associates and relatives never spoke of the matter, and Freddie Alexander seems until now to have virtually ...”

“... Born of the devil and filled with the devil’s blood’ was Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s typically over the top dismissal of the Gulag medical system, which he had encountered at first hand in his years as a prisoner. In his view, the doctors, however good their intentions, were powerless in a system whose raison d’être was to maximise labour extraction without regard for human life or suffering ...”

“... success with her caftans.’ Shoes remain a problem. Marching down a Paris boulevard in 1968 with Alexander Cockburn, the compañero of her political phase, her feet are killing her. They stop off to get new footware, but ‘the trouble is I want smart shoes – we are still in a banlieue. I select in the end a pair of brown brogues.’ These are as ...”

“... emphasised his youth and the beauty that went along with it; he was seen as a reincarnation of Alexander the Great rather than Julius Caesar. The Roman public quickly focused on the princes expected to succeed Augustus. His grandson Gaius made his first public appearance in 13 BC at the age of six, and was portrayed on coins with his younger ...”

“... the Eighties remarks, ‘I see only ... a grubby competition for publication and money.’ It is Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s misfortune to have survived into the new age. Alone of the major dissidents – only Sakharov rivalled him in stature – he came back to the country from which he had been expelled twenty years before. The late Joseph Brodsky, asked in ...”

“... been applied to proper names: in view of Asako’s fascination with Miss Havisham and Susan Hay ward, it seems odd that she should get their names wrong. Offset against this, but rather too infrequently for this reader, are moments when one is arrested by an unusual image or phrase: ‘our lips parted reluctantly, like hot caramel being pulled ...”

“... investigations between the UK and Russia collapsed during the investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko; the Ukrainian crisis has brought to a halt any attempts to co-ordinate investigations into cybercrime between Russia and the West. At the heart of Silk Road’s success lie the extremely high mark-ups in a prohibited market, in this case ...”

“... antiquarian prose, and they too let him shape their tastes. Gigante plausibly suggests that Alexander Young was the ‘Rev. Mr Alexander’ who bought Lamb’s copy of Vincent Bourne. Young produced a nine-volume Library of the Old English Prose Writers, which included Robert Burton, Izaak Walton and many of Lamb’s ...”

“... a greater Armenia dashed by the new Turkish nationalism. Leaders intent on murderous mischief – Alexander, Xenophon, Xerxes and their successors – had always seemed to pass this way, perhaps contributing to the reputation of Mus among Turks as a backwater best left undisturbed. A famous Ottoman song has sorrowful soldiers trudging up the ‘steep ...”

“... social world occupy, so to speak, the language of the narrator: ‘About 30 years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton.’ In that sentence ‘only’, ‘good luck’ and ‘captivate’ seem to have crept in from neighbourhood ...”

“... Manan, Azam and Margueritte). He interpreted immigration rules strictly – for example in Alexander, which the Law Lords overruled, and Marek. This last was a particularly harsh decision denying an infant admission because the mother was abroad on a business visit at the time of application. She died on the visit, so the application could not be ...”

“... hands of Michael Winner – ‘to make money for my boys’: Mark Pearce, her second husband, and Alexander, the couple’s son, born in 1983. As Edmund Gordon says towards the beginning of his biography, Carter was never so widely acclaimed in life as she would be in the weeks and years after her death. The tributes were long, sometimes fulsome, always ...”