Flanner
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Flanner was a perfect fit for the breezy tone of the magazine’s first decade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
As these tone-deaf lines indicate, Flanner was a gifted writer but not a political seer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
The fun, for New Yorker fans, is the parlor game of connecting them to such real-life analogues as Joseph Mitchell, Rosamond Bernier, Mavis Gallant, Janet Flanner, James Baldwin, A.J.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2021
In Paris, Abbott became known for portraits of leading cultural figures, including James Joyce and Janet Flanner, and for championing the work of the then little-known Eugène Atget.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021
In the first place, the Flanner Guild, projected by Mr. Flanner, a white man, is maintained largely by white contributions, but it is controlled wholly by coloured people.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David
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