landlady

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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

Lindsay, 52, best known for playing the Rovers Return landlady Shelley Unwin on the ITV soap set in Greater Manchester, said she was "extremely honoured", and dedicated the award to working class actors.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

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

“He left a week ago. Like idiots we told him to mail us the key. The landlady is in Florida. We’ve been in the country at Francis’s the whole time.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt