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Wharton

[ hwawr-tn, wawr- ]

noun

  1. Edith 1862–1937, U.S. novelist.


Wharton

/ ˈwɔːtən /

noun

  1. WhartonEdith (Newbold)18621937FUSWRITING: novelist Edith ( Newbold ). 1862–1937, US novelist; author of The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911)


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The first day involved roughly 1,000 feet of limestone that, “if someone brushed it and cleaned it, would actually be really good,” Wharton said, “like big wall sport climbing in Europe.”

For over a decade, my Wharton colleague Marissa Sharif has had the ambitious goal of running every day.

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So we have a graduate of Choate or Beverly Hills High who attends Wharton, and goes to work for, say, Goldman Sachs.

Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live.

Pope, Wharton, Nabokov, and Updike, to name only a handful, fail to register at all.

Wharton has written about his experiences alongside the young Prince in his new book Out in the Army.

A Wharton M.B.A., she was the former CEO of the digital advertising agency Digitas, and she quickly set about revamping the unit.

Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.

One evening, while he was thus engaged, he observed de Patinos and Duke Wharton enter together.

Fanning and Wharton were to make head against the infantry and cavalry.

Wharton smiled at this littleness in so great a man, but determined that he should feel the power he despised.

Wharton and Louis had withdrawn their hands at the same instant they caught his eye; and the Duke turned into the circle.

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