Sentences with phrase «of tweedy»

We ended up buying kind of a tweedy grey.

The tale takes place in the «Stalag» of Tweedy's Farm — minus the machine gun towers and jackboots — and comes with a feathery twist; and from a feminist perspective.

The premise of the show is ripped from standard - issue psychoanalysis, the juxtaposition of childhood tropes — Disney World — with the aggressive fetishes of a tweedy, impotent character, a dumbed - down Humbert Humbert type named «Walt Paul» played by Paul McCarthy himself.

The publication by the managers of Tweedy Browne is compilation of dozens of studies on high dividend yields.

THE bookshelves in the conference room of Tweedy, Browne & Company are lined with financial history.

This position accounts for 1.08 % of the $ 1.85 billion portfolio of Tweedy Browne CO LLC.

The update of the Tweedy Browne booklet continues a long and sorry tradition of updates that are not updates at all.

Robert Robotti, founder of Robotti & Company, and noted Grahamite small - to - mid cap value investor, started out as an accountant working for the auditor of Tweedy, Browne Company.

-LSB-...] When I started my investment journey two years back, I was much more attracted to the investment philosophy of partners of Tweedy & Browne compared to Warren Buffet.

We look forward to working more closely with Frank in his expanded role at the Firm, and to his contributions to the continued success of Tweedy, Browne.

Christopher Browne of Tweedy, Browne suggested that you should pay attention to the portfolio manager's investment style and his or her record in the context of that style.

I did it partly off of Tweedy, Browne's study, which is aptly titled, «What Has Worked in Investing.»

For more on how to spot undervalued companies, visit the website of Tweedy, Browne, the famous value - investing firm, and read their excellent paper on What Has Worked In Investing (http://www.tweedy.com, then look under Research & Reports).

Elegance from Fendi; Layers of tweedy knit from Chanel; 60's space age, reminiscent of Paco Rabanne, over prints from Dolce and Gabbana; More 60's influenced style at Christopher Kane with patent and shearling; I'm saying YES PLEASE!

On the one hand, we have the advice given by one of the managing directors of Tweedy Browne to a client that held $ 30 million in Berkshire Hathaway stock many years ago.

Not exact matches

At a hearing on Thursday in state court in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos will consider whether to permit the rare proceeding to go forward, potentially allowing the Club — whose tweedy Manhattan headquarters has, over the years, served the likes of Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Teddy Roosevelt, and Jacques Cousteau — to stop Diageo's (DEO) mighty Johnnie Walker brand from marketing its new Explorers» Club Collection.

Several of my favorite mutual funds offered by companies such as Third Avenue and Tweedy Browne (full disclosure: my family and I have investments with these firms) already offer private accounts (separately managed accounts) for high net worth individuals and mutual funds for the masses that invest extensively throughout the world.

Many of the best value investors in the world, including Tweedy Browne and Third Avenue, have routinely kept cash on their balance sheet to serve as «dry powder» for when markets fall.

The wide variance in styles of successful value investors (Schloss, Gabelli, Tweedy Browne, Buffett, Whitman, etc.) shows that there is a place for many types of personalities.

Tweedy, Browne & Company, one of the oldest and most respected value investing shops in the world, illustrated the destructive influence high turnover can wrought on a portfolio in its November 22, 1999, letter to shareholders.

With the wind at their backs, the Superinvestors that Buffett highlighted in the article - Walter Schloss, Tweedy, Browne, and Sequoia - to name a few, enjoyed a spectacular run of outperformance.

Part of the mastery is the raw emotion, something akin to early Richard Buckner or a stripped - down solo affair that Jeff Tweedy should make.

As Tweedy notices about Madonna, «You could never get to be that huge unless you surrendered every other impulse in your body to the service of your persona.»

In one essay, «Ghost Story, 2004», he documents an interesting interview of Jeff Tweedy, frontman for Wilco.

Two of my more favorite people in the world in the same post: Klosterman (the kind of writer I aspire to be) & Tweedy (the kind of musician I would want to be & I wish there were more of in the biz).

If our image isn't Christ, then we're spending all of our time manipulating our series of masks and they end up controlling us, much as Tweedy alludes to in reference to Madonna & Keith Richards.

In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade, process 3/4 cup of the oats to a flour (a few tweedy bits here and there, without any whole oats in the mix, are fine).

His father, Ogden (who died in 2002), won the coin flip with Penny Tweedy, the daughter of Meadow Stable's Christopher Chenery, who wanted to fulfill her late father's dream of winning the Derby.

Well over 6 feet tall, he dresses in the tweedy elegance of European aristocracy, often with the added fillip of shirts in dazzling pink or yellow.

Abercrombie is seated near a couple of astronauts, a chirpy Cleveland talk - show host and Michael Hammond, the tweedy dean of the music school at Rice University.

Tweedy is one of the Development Coordinators for Camp Kesem at Temple!

«Our school system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in Brooklyn.

Of course, that wasn't in the budget, but Wall Street Rising, along with sponsors like Citigroup and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, did have enough to foot the bill for artists like Cat Power, Buddy Guy, Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams, Aimee Mann, and Ricki Lee Jones.

Samantha Tweedy, head of School at Excellence Boys, a charter school in Brooklyn, address a rally organized by Families for Excellent Schools.

Carolyn Tweedy, the director of recreation complex Asphalt Green, wrote a letter to the editor the next day, asking: «Is Menin really suggesting that the thousands of children who visit us will be human shields blocking the MTS's impacts?»

You don't exactly fit the image of the graying, tweedy professor.

Tweedy experiences this sad truth from both sides of the stethoscope and relates his challenges in navigating the predominantly white medical world as a patient and a professional.

Indeed, Amazon has the same blazer in beige, a dark maroon, and a more tweedy gray version for $ 42 - $ 128; there are even a smattering of matching skirts and pants (such as here and here).

And the one with the tweedy skirt — it's a nice mix of casual with business wear — something I'm trying to play with myself.

No need to store winter's velvet smoking slippers just yet — they look fabulous with a simple pair of black shorts or a skirt and a tweedy blazer.

If I were only allowed to keep three, I would have to choose my Hugo Boss Tuxedo (slightly oversized with a satin collar detail and the nearest I have come to Le Smoking thus far); the Skinny Fit Joseph Blazer (shiny black, shrunken fit, lightweight, good for any given day); my Emanuel Ungaro tweedy brocade (hip length, lined, warm, doubles as a coat in fall, looks like Chanel, brilliant with jeans, or with a slip dress); Vintage Armani (mannish, loose fit, hip length, two vintage moth holes, but if I keep my right arm down no one knows)... But oops that's four — but I have mulled this over on a number of occasions and my selection often differs, and that's why I can't give any of them up and in fact usually end up acquiring another one, and why I'm not opposed to adding to my collection either, so I'm looking at 3 current Blazer trends to play with and maybe I can retire a few to storage for a while.

We've roundup up a selection of our favorite tweedy, textured pieces for fall.

Mel Gibson provides the voice of an American chicken who lands on the farm while fleeing the circus; Julia Sawalha («Absolutely Fabulous») performs the voice of the head hen in charge, and Miranda Richardson voices Mrs. Tweedy, the abusive chicken farmer.

The Decoy Bride Directed by: Sheree Folkson — Starring: Kelly Mcdonald, Alice Eve, David Tennant, Michael Urie Summary: When the wedding of internationally famous film star Lara Tyler (ALICE EVE) to tweedy English author James Arber (DAVID TENNANT) is sabotaged by a paparazzo, they decide to relocate one place where the world's press won't find them: the sleepy Scottish Island of Hegg.

Cheryl Tweedy is set to expand the size of her Surrey home by double.

December 6, 2017 • From Uncle Tupelo to an unreleased song, Jeff Tweedy showcased the range of his career in an acoustic set.

Alas, the title is just the first misstep in a well - meaning but ham - handed attempt to get at Salinger's mystery, an attempt made fitfully bearable by an intriguing central performance and the tweedy atmosphere of mid-20th-century literary America.

But the prison references run even deeper; the Tweedy farm is not unlike a Nazi death camp, a parallel made all the more blatant when the maniacal Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) decides to use her traditionally egg - laying hens for a different type of food source.

«Genius «There may be a slightly tweedy aura surrounding Michael Grandage «s directorial debut, the story of famous 1920s editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) and his friendship and professional relationship with writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law).

Her tweedy, support - hosed teacher Barbara Covett is set up as a distaff Richard III, looking to subvert the beautifuls acting as the royals in her school's social strata — the newest member of which, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), attracts the greatest amount of envy and desire.