Too old to enlist when World War I broke out, Maugham served in France as a member of the British Red bCross's/b so-called "Literary Ambulance Drivers," a group of some 23 well-known writers including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, b..../b Later successful novels were also based on real-life characters: The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin; and Cakes and Ale contains thinly veiled characterizations of authors Thomas Hardy and Hugh bWalpole/b. ...
It had no need of lords when bCross/b Street, King Street and Oxford Street were lined with commercial palaces of merchant princes. While parliament was building itself a pastiche of a Catholic seminary on the banks of the Thames, Mancunians were ... And note the one institution that in Britain has gained most power this past quarter century. It has not budged an inch since bWalpole's/b day. It occupies a humble Georgian terrace house in a side street with a number on the door. ...
OTTAWA - Industry Minister Jim Prentice touted Canada's "stable" supply of oil and gas to an audience of American politicians and heads of industry Monday as he called for a relaxing of barriers that hinder cross-border trade. CP ...
