Airs and Graces (1895 – 1915) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a two-year-old she raced in the colours of the 6th Duke of Portland...
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1882 dictionary says: "To put on airs, to assume airs of importance." Another more modern usage: "put on airs and graces to behave affectedly." Typified...
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(1988) (as The Silly Sisters) Airs and Graces (1976) (including "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" and "Reynardine") Ashes and Diamonds (1977) (including...
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and secret agent Richard Jeperson. The Two Ronnies performed a sketch entitled 'Jason King', with Ronnie Corbett putting on all the airs and graces of...
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Portrait Painters president Alistair Adams suggested that there "are no airs and graces, there's no background context to allude to success or power – it's...
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Cilla Black (section Awards and honours)
hearts of the British people" because "she was our Cilla—there were no airs and graces". Black's funeral service was held on 20 August 2015 at St Mary's Church...
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eloquently stated. M. Giono's manner is simple and unaffected, since he has not yet acquired academic airs and graces." Hill of destiny. OCLC 1922648. Retrieved...
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dressed in gaudy colours, and fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces." The nineteenth- and twentieth-century writer and essayist Alice Meynell judged...
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Convention) 1976: Swarbrick (Dave Swarbrick) 1976: Airs and Graces (June Tabor) 1976: Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) 1976: Rocket Cottage (Steeleye...
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Trevor White (actor) (section Early and personal life)
together. It’s helped that we’ve been able to cut through all the airs and graces and get down to it. Acting isn’t a nine to five anyway so we’re both...
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recorded it for her 1976 debut solo album Airs and Graces. Unknown to Bogle, the song became famous in the UK and North America; so when Bogle was in the...
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Epsom Downs over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 6 yards (2,420 metres), about 1½ miles, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late May...
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Badminton Horse Trials (section Warnings and sanctions)
Summer Olympics. The first Badminton had 22 horses from Britain and Ireland start, and was won by Golden Willow. Eight of the 22 starters failed to complete...
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poke fun at her airs and graces. He's also somewhat arrogant, referring to himself in a Muppet Magazine article as one real cool dude and during The Muppet...
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2022 and made good progress in the following year to win the Musidora Stakes and the Epsom Oaks. Soul Sister is a bay filly with a large white star and a...
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Terry Jones (section Before Python and early Python)
at Oxford, and on first meeting him Palin states, "The first thing that struck me was what a nice bloke he was. He had no airs and graces. We had a similar...
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her novels. A Breath of Fresh Air (1996) Time for a Change (1997) Airs and Graces (1997) A Sense of Belonging (1998) Act of Faith (1999) The Holiday...
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must use grande guignol effects and have an actress who portrays the lead character as one "with the airs and graces of a grande dame". He further stated...
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Stand Down Margaret (section Background and meaning)
as though she had airs and graces to the manor born". The lyrics "how can it work in this all white law" was written by Andy Cox and alludes to Thatcher's...
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (redirect from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son)
purpose. This defiance of the ordinary, these airs and graces, the formality of the dialogue with its Sirs and Madams are all there to create an atmosphere...
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MacArthur 1976: Airs and Graces by June Tabor 1977: A Maid in Bedlam by John Renbourn 1977: Dark Ships in the Forest by Roberts and Barrand 1992: Weaving...
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raised a little in society, as a result of which he typically affected airs and graces beyond his station. Upon returning to England with Bligh, Hayward set...
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Andy Burnham (section Early life and education)
brilliant man. The fact he was a former DPP, and came to work in my shadow Home Office team with no airs and graces says a lot about Keir Starmer." Burnham...
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Dorothy Gish (section Sound era and return to stage)
the superior airs and graces of her rank. At a rehearsal of 'The Wife', of Belasco and DeMille fame, in which picture I played the lead, and Dorothy the...
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Cowdenknowes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-04-24. Dougan, John. "June Tabor: Airs and Graces". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-11-10. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "10,000...
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by six lengths from a field which included Dieudonne and the Classic winners Airs and Graces and Chelandry. On his final start of the year he won the...
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are and or or. above and beyond airs and graces alarm and muster alive and kicking alive and well an arm and a leg armed and dangerous apples and oranges...
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"Airs and Graces" 7″/12″, Crash (1983) "Shoot The Big Shot" b/w "Falling" and "Don't Leave Me That Way" 12″, Crash (1983) "Kardomah Café" b/w "Airs and...
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Castellane wrote of him: A cabotin, brave, amiable, high but without airs-and-graces, he had a supreme elegance, with the air of a grand seigneur, but with...
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K.I.Z (section Lyrics and musical style)
smallest penis. K.I.Z satirically criticize society, politics and phenomena such as airs and graces, or life in the precariat. Nico considers his style to be...
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