landlady
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The landlady and her partner escorted Gothard - who lived three to four houses from the bar - away to "calm the situation down", jurors heard.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Ms. Ypi tells us that the two had been close enough for her grandfather to once offer to settle the penniless Hoxha’s debts with his Parisian landlady.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
It was Dofta Hita, our landlady, dropping in from downstairs for a little visit.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
"It's not just people in the music industry, this was also happening to barmaids, pub landladies and people's mums," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The demonstration was organised by two landladies in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, and was attended by people of all ages.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021
Even picture postcards, Igo relates in one of many humorous and eye-opening vignettes, came under fire for enabling, one magazine’s editors wrote, “servants and landladies to have the full benefit of our private matters.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
The landladies run their fingers along the tops of wardrobes, tutting, while the men argue about their Visit Britain accreditation, mouths full of tepid bacon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
As wives doubtless they are meritorious; but no monument need be erected to them as landladies.
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
