landlady
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Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Among them is Miss Connulty, a respected landlady, whose tragic past prompts her to warn Ellie that “love was a madness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Ms. Ypi tells us that the two had been close enough for her grandfather to once offer to settle the penniless Hoxha’s debts with his Parisian landlady.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
The band - which then included the original bassist Andy Nicholson - took home just £17 that night and the pub's landlady said the audience mostly consisted of the band's "aunts, mums and dads".
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
On Sundays his landlady urges him over and over again to eat some meat, so he eats a little.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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