lady
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Another memorable role came two years later when Fricker was cast as the homeless bird lady befriended by Macaulay Culkin's Kevin in Home Alone 2.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
"He was out for maybe two or three minutes," she said, before adding "the lady sitting next to him and I tried to pull him back inside".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her brother, who never married, said jokingly his sister could serve as first lady if he won the presidency in 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“The lady told me that I had signed paperwork with them and that I could not back out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
No one knew he was in love, but he was...so secretly, it seems, that even the lady herself didn't know he liked her!
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
The spotlight is even more intense for America’s first ladies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
"I just wanted to tell this story because, ladies and gentlemen of the American media, this is important," Rutte told journalists in the Oval Office as Trump looked on approvingly.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
However, a closer look at presidents and first ladies presents a contrasting perspective: Character shapes decisions most clearly when stakes are high and outcomes are uncertain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Can you bear to do one more of those, ladies and gentlemen," pleads Dunkley, "while there's still blood left in your top lips?"
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In the first room she wrote the flaming Christian tracts for which she was known all over Holland, and in the second received the well-to-do ladies who supported this work.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
