Word: norah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last seven years of the poet's self-exile in Switzerland, and his partial biography has been a primary source of countless articles and other writings on Rilke since it was first published in 1936. It has now appeared for the first time in English, translated by Norah Kelsall Cruickshank, an English poet...
Also upset, though for a different reason, was an elderly widow named Mrs. Norah Reeve, who recently moved into a new apartment-no one seemed quite sure just who occupied it before. After Vassall's confession was published in the dailies, her phone rang incessantly, she complained, but it was always somebody asking for "Miss Mary." The post office obligingly changed her number from Kensington...
...come with Elizabeth," he said, "or with Cromwell, or with Dutch William. We were here." He was a courtly, gentle man who daily fed the pigeons outside his Dublin house and often cut out puppets for children. "He always had a new joke to tell," says Irish Artist Norah McGuiness, "and never made a commonplace remark. He lived in a different world, and I wish I could have entered...