Among Friends: An AutobiographyCentury, 1984 - 234 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... head office in Edinburgh was my winning a prize in the Institute of Bankers Annual Essay Competition on the subject ' The Art of Investment ' ( a trifling triumph which I mentioned jocularly not long ago to a lordly partner in the firm ...
... head office in Edinburgh was my winning a prize in the Institute of Bankers Annual Essay Competition on the subject ' The Art of Investment ' ( a trifling triumph which I mentioned jocularly not long ago to a lordly partner in the firm ...
Pagina 54
... head of Kinlochhourn , and soon we were aground , listing to the dried gunwale so steeply that a jelly which the cook had left to set , stiffened on the tilt and was eaten in spoonfuls from a shape that looked like a horizon experiment ...
... head of Kinlochhourn , and soon we were aground , listing to the dried gunwale so steeply that a jelly which the cook had left to set , stiffened on the tilt and was eaten in spoonfuls from a shape that looked like a horizon experiment ...
Pagina 163
... head office on the Mound above the centre of Edinburgh . Nothing is more likely to discountenance a self - appointed instructor and adviser than to be invited to join in and show how it should all be done . It happened on one of my ...
... head office on the Mound above the centre of Edinburgh . Nothing is more likely to discountenance a self - appointed instructor and adviser than to be invited to join in and show how it should all be done . It happened on one of my ...
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able Alastair Allan Water already ashore asked bank became become better Bill Thomson boat boys British brought called church Clem Cliff Hanley Clyde course Daily Record Dorothy Dunnett early Edinburgh editor father Fleet Street Flotta football George Glasgow Gordon Brunton hand happened Highland hills Ibrox Disaster island John journalists Kemsley Kilmacolm knew late later lived Loch London look meet memorable morning mother never newspaper night North Sea North Sea oil once paper perhaps picture play remember road round Roy Thomson running Scapa Flow scene Scotland Scots Scotsman Scottish Scottish Office seemed Seumas sitting staff started story style Sunday talk tell things told Tom Johnston took turned Vera Lynn walk wanted wartime week whole Willie writing wrote young