Elsie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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There’s Beverley, a pretty blond mom riddled with self-doubt; glamorous but financially strapped Margot, who frequents Hollywood parties in an Oleg Cassini dress; and demure Elsie, a newspaper editor’s personal assistant who longs to write and report stories of her own but is instead relegated to administrative tasks.
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In “The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives,” a pants-wearing female reporter who encourages Elsie serves as an avatar of the changing attitudes toward women and their role in society.
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Equally as important: researching women in the same boat as Beverley, Margot and Elsie.
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As the Lousiana State Unversity professor Elsie Michie writes in the academic journal article, “From Simianized Irish to Oriental Despots: Heathcliff, Rochester and Racial Difference,” Heathcliff’s racial othering is how “he becomes, for others, a locus of both fear and desire.”
From Los Angeles Times
His daughter Elsie is now 2 and a half.
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