Leather Armchairs: The Chivas Regal Book of London ClubsCassell, 1963 - 194 pages |
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... never had a meal or a drink but started reading the newspapers every day at 2.15 p.m. until 6.30 p.m. when he departed . If , when reading a leading article he decided not to like it , he would shout out , ' Damn it , what a bloody fool ...
... never had a meal or a drink but started reading the newspapers every day at 2.15 p.m. until 6.30 p.m. when he departed . If , when reading a leading article he decided not to like it , he would shout out , ' Damn it , what a bloody fool ...
Page 68
... never used , on the ground floor and at the bottom of a short sharp flight of stairs a dining room with a huge grill and kitchen range on which Sir Winston Churchill once personally cooked a meal after a late sitting at the House of ...
... never used , on the ground floor and at the bottom of a short sharp flight of stairs a dining room with a huge grill and kitchen range on which Sir Winston Churchill once personally cooked a meal after a late sitting at the House of ...
Page 177
... never a scarcity of first - class club servants , seventy per cent of whom are English . Not that there is any charge put on the bill . No member need tip if he does not wish to . The best - known member of the staff is undoubtedly ...
... never a scarcity of first - class club servants , seventy per cent of whom are English . Not that there is any charge put on the bill . No member need tip if he does not wish to . The best - known member of the staff is undoubtedly ...
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