Word: executor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finding herself childless, a widow, and sole executor of a large estate, she began, in a "wary, hardbitten, and vigilant manner" to carry on the tradition of the merchant aristocracy to which she had always belonged...
...life in a biography. His quest takes him to a college chum of Sebastian's at Cambridge who recalls a miserable emigre trying desperately to be more pukka than the sahibs. (Nabokov graduated from Cambridge in 1922.) Next, the half brother interviews Sebastian's secretary and literary executor, a fatuous bundle of sociological cliches. Then there are Sebastian's two mistresses. As the investigator probes on, it is not one Sebastian Knight who emerges, but a different Sebastian for every relationship. The gist of the secret that the half brother learns is "that the soul...
...Literary Executor to Norman Douglas Rome
Later, Maxwell Perkins, the executor of Wolfe's estate, sold the massive collection of papers that Wolfe left at his death, to William Wisdom of New Orleans. Wisdom wanting to keep all the Wolfe papers together gave them to Harvard because of its possession of Look Homeward, Angel...
...eleven o'clock. They entered his office together, and he motioned for them to sit down. There was a letter on his desk, and he read it through at least twice before speaking to them. Finally he explained that he had received a letter from Greg's lawyer, the executor of his estate. During the past ten years Greg had worked steadily at what might prove to be the outstanding work of his career. It was substantially finished, but would require some editing, and, of course, it would have to be seen through to publication. The next point...