Word: elinore
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...winning play will be performed in the spring and will be chosen in late November by a panel of experts including Ernest Hemingway, Elinor Hughes, Mary Martin, Archibald MacLeigh, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and William Van Lennep, curator of the Theatre Collection...
...grandfather's cut-down suit. He worked in the mills, nailed shoes, helped farmers. He began to read Latin and Greek avidly, wrote his first poem (in blank verse, about Cortes in Mexico), played on the football team and tied for class honors with a girl named Elinor Miriam White...
...While Elinor went to college, young Robert restlessly tried Dartmouth for a couple of months ("A great fellow for poking fun," a classmate remembers), went back home, tried editing a weekly and wrote a column in the Lawrence Sun-American. He sold his first poem (My Butterfly) to the Independent, and a check for $20 arrived from New York along with a lady editor eager to take him back for lionizing. He refused to go. He was only 20, but even then he had learned when to stand people...
Frost and Elinor White were married in 1895. A woman of competence and quiet charm, Elinor managed the money and her impractical husband, listened to his poems. Two years after their marriage...
...irritations of academic "busy work" exasperated him beyond his limited patience-an exasperation which has made his relations with the academic world both stimulating and stormy. He quit after two years. His grandfather bought him a farm in Deny, N.H. and turned him loose. For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel. Working long after the children were in bed and the chores done, he slowly wrung out a lean, spare and personal idiom...