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Eleanor

[ el-uh-nawr, -ner ]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Helen.


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Eleanor’s words about the challenges of undoing a mistake were prescient.

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Karrar and his wife have a week-old daughter, Eleanor, and have always assumed they’d have to leave their city neighborhood for the suburbs once they had children in school.

Anna took to calling her first daughter “Granny” because of Eleanor’s shy, solemn demeanor.

Whatever its shortcomings, “Eleanor in the Village” is a worthy addition to the library on her life.

One might even legitimately wonder if FDR ever would have become president were it not for Eleanor’s ongoing and transformative experiences in the Village.

His next book is called Alice and Eleanor: The Wars of the Roosevelts.

His wife Eleanor was more representative of the activist strain running through the progressive movement.

“I became more of a feminist than I ever thought possible,” Eleanor later wrote.

The popular perception is that Eleanor never got over the betrayal, which Black contests.

[Laughs] Did you have any wild nights out in the city while filming The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby?

And now all were dead save Eleanor, his bright-haired sister, and she—the captive of Iftikhar.

Then the deed at Cefalu—and that accursed child Eleanor still remains to drive me wild with her moans and her sorrow.

You were like the little Eleanor whom alone in all the world I ever truly loved.

"It's your money, but it is my life," Eleanor urged, with a quiver in her voice.

Eleanor's persistence in recurring to this most distasteful of subjects roused her to fury.

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