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boardinghouse
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Alternative spelling of boarding house
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The two make their way to a boardinghouse in the countryside, where Pamela slips out of the handcuffs while Hannay is asleep.
Elsschot's first work, Villa des roses (1913; Eng. trans. Villa des roses), an exercise in the naturalism of the period, is set in a French boardinghouse.
Sophie leaves unexpectedly, and Stingo trails her to the boardinghouse, where he discovers that Nathan and Sophie have committed suicide.
Wilson's chronicle of the black American experience continued with Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988), a play about the lives of residents of a boardinghouse in 1911; The Piano Lesson, set in the 1930s and concerning a family's ambivalence about selling an heirloom; and Two Trains Running (1992), whose action takes place in a coffeehouse in the 1960s.
Thereafter she spent her last years living frugally in a Baltimore boardinghouse, from which she carefully managed her properties, stocks, and other financial affairs.
Dickinson's last trips from Amherst were in 1864 and 1865, when she shared her cousins Louisa and Frances Norcross's boardinghouse in Cambridge and underwent a course of treatment with the leading Boston ophthalmologist.
In 1935 McLeod reteamed with Burns and Allen on Here Comes Cookie, and it fared little better than their previous effort; Allen played a flighty heiress who turns her father's Fifth Avenue mansion into a boardinghouse for unemployed vaudeville performers.
His father, William Oliver Wolfe, the Oliver Gant of his novels, was a stonecutter, while his mother, Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe, the Eliza of the early novels, owned a successful boardinghouse in Asheville, N.C., where Wolfe grew up.
In a boardinghouse in Brooklyn, New York, Stingo becomes friends with a pair of tormented lovers: Nathan Landau, a brilliant but unstable Jew, and Sophie Zawistowska, a beautiful and guilt-ridden Polish refugee.
Intent on finding someone to do the housekeeping, he marries boardinghouse cook Milly (Jane Powell).
The play is set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse whose inhabitants are all from the rural South, new to the industrial North, separated from their families and from their heritage.
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