Word: norah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is typical," wrote one friendly critic, Norah Alexander of the Daily Mail, "of the flatfooted, unimaginative British approach. . . . I was sorry Mr. Disney should get such a frozen shoulder on his arrival...
Roedean last week braced itself for the advent of a new headmistress. In her forties, tweedy Norah Horobin is a "Christian Socialist" and a lady of the likes of the Lawrence sisters. Miss Horobin is strong on discipline, science and sports, and already the word has spread to Roedean that she is "frightfully gamesy...
Eleanor Jenemann Thompson, 26, wife of the philandering Pittsburgh sergeant who fathered quadruplets (three lived) in wartime England, finally sued him for divorce, opened the way for his marriage to the quadruplets' mother, 24-year-old Norah Carpenter. Grounds: "indignities." Cried ex-Sergeant William H. Thompson: "Hurray!" Mother Norah, still in Derbyshire, promptly inquired about transatlantic plane fares, bubbled: "Boats are too slow...
Sergeant William Thompson Jr., 27-year-old G.I. father of quadruplets born to Norah Carpenter a year and a half ago in Heanor, England, arrived home from the wars, changed into a neat blue suit with a discharge button, said to Pittsburgh reporters: "Nothing is important. . . . Let's drop the whole matter." Wife Eleanor, still refusing him a divorce, said, "I won't see him. . . . We have nothing in common to discuss. ... He made his bed; let him lie in it." Back in England, 24-year-old Norah, confident that the Sergeant would send...
...whole damn Army," made the inevitable cracks about his status in the Services of Supply. Officialdom, British and American, pondered the chances of a Congressional inquiry into Army morals as reflected by Sergeant Thompson's application of lend-lease. But the death of MacDonald, the sudden weakening of Norah cast a shadow over Bill's high spirits. He hurried to London, conferred long & earnestly with his superiors. Then, scratching his head over how to legitimize his family, he received the press. Said he: "We just want to be left alone...