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Aldrich

[ awl-drich ]

noun

  1. Thomas Bailey, 1836–1907, U.S. short-story writer, poet, and novelist.


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His mother [Abby Aldrich Rockefeller] had an enormous influence, almost entirely for the good.

He's also busy rejecting the professional advances of acne-faced young scientist Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce, somewhat disguised).

Aldrich Ames had been working for the CIA for 31 years when he and his wife were arrested on espionage charges in 1994.

He received a terrible critique in 1872, at age 37, when he visited his great friend Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Boston.

Despite being invited to dinner by his friend Aldrich, Lillian refused to move into the dining room.

Curiously enough, it came as an unexpected by-product of a further experiment in protection, the Payne-Aldrich tariff.

A little later he was urging Howells or Aldrich, or both of them; to come to Hartford to live.

Howells tells delightfully of a visit which he and Aldrich paid to Hartford just at this period.

Another memory of that dinner is linked to a demand that Aldrich made of Clemens that night, for his photograph.

Aldrich was writing a story at this time which contained some Western mining incident and environment.

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