Grenfell

The bustle of the city jarred on him that afternoon, and he wandered out of it, but the march, parched with thirst, through the feathery ashes of the brûlée, rose up in his memory as he walked aimlessly toward the prairie, and he recalled Grenfell lying beside the lode he had died to find.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

She recommended practical fabrics such as Grenfell cotton and parachute silk

Mary Hall: Amelia Earhart's Fashion Line: Found at Last 2009

Simply everyone was there, my dears, from Roy Jenkins to Rab Butler, to Robert Morley to Richard Gordon, to Gordon Richards to the onliest distaff stand-up of the time, wonderful Joyce Grenfell, who told how a distant ancestor, Harrovian WH Grenfell, had been in Oxford's No3 seat in that 1877 dead-heat.

Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating 2011

Bona fide specimens from the high-Victorian rock face, on the other hand, sometimes hint at the existence of a profound emotional gulf, and Suzanne Fagence Cooper quotes the by no means unique example of Charles Kingsley, who agreed with his fiancée, Frances Grenfell, that it would be best to avoid "fuller communion" during their honeymoon on the grounds that he might be unable to "bear the blaze of her naked beauty."

A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

At twenty she married Willy Grenfell, later Lord Desborough, a genial sportsman.

Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough | Edwardian Promenade 2009

A tailor's daughter living on London's Savile Row, Veda Grenfell expects that one day she will marry up and shed her status as a tradesman's daughter.

The Tailor's Daughter by Janice Graham: Book summary 2010

Bona fide specimens from the high-Victorian rock face, on the other hand, sometimes hint at the existence of a profound emotional gulf, and Suzanne Fagence Cooper quotes the by no means unique example of Charles Kingsley, who agreed with his fiancée, Frances Grenfell, that it would be best to avoid "fuller communion" during their honeymoon on the grounds that he might be unable to "bear the blaze of her naked beauty."

A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

Mr. Herrhausen died just three days after he announced a plan to acquire the investment-banking firm Morgan Grenfell—at the time a record-breaking bank acquisition.

Bomb Sent to Deutsche Bank Is Intercepted Laura Stevens 2011

Pat Toomey, the Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, was an investment adviser at Chemical Bank from 1984 to 1986, then spent four years at Morgan, Grenfell

Candidates Go After Their Rivals' Ties to Wall Street 2010

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir Wilfred Grenfell used high-pressure fire-fighting water cannons to deter other Spanish fishing vessels from disrupting the enforcement operation.

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