Nicolson
Americannoun
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Sir Harold George, 1886–1968, English diplomat, biographer, and journalist (husband of Victoria Mary Sackville-West).
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Marjorie Hope, 1894–1981, U.S. scholar, educator, and author.
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Boxer Fabio Wardley posted "don't worry I'll keep it safe" with a video of the toupee on the seat beside him, while Skye Nicolson, external also posed with it on her head.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
After his roadside epiphany, Mr. Nicolson “slowly developed a double thought: not only to learn something of birds but to make a place,” as he puts it, “that might be accommodating and receptive to them.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Mr. Nicolson may not have paid much attention to birds in the past, but he is a hands-on learner with unbounded curiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
It is a second successive defeat for Chapman after falling short against WBC featherweight champion Skye Nicolson in October.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025
As Harold Nicolson put it, he had a combination of “great flights of oratory with sudden swoops into the intimate and the conversational.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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