Wanning

LAMB: And -- is it Katherine Wanning (pronounced WAHNing) or Wanning (pronounced WANing).

A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures 1995

When Wanning went down to dinner he found his wife already at her chair, and the table laid for four.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

It was a satisfaction to Wanning to name the organ that had betrayed him, while all the rest of him was so sound.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Wanning went to his club for luncheon, meaning to spend the afternoon with some of his friends who had retired from business and who read the papers there in the empty hours between two and seven.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Wanning had an especially kindly feeling for the little new girl, a copyist, who had exclaimed that "Mr. Wanning couldn't be fifty; he seemed so boyish!"

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Wanning watched him with a homesick feeling in his heart.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Wanning used sometimes to wonder why these disconcerting fluctuations could not go the other way; why Roma could not melt away as easily as did her sister, who had to be sent to Palm Beach to save the precious pounds.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

The house was so still that Wanning could hear a faint, metallic tinkle from the butler's pantry.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Annie was also paid for overtime, and although Wanning attended to very little of the office business now, there was a great deal of overtime.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Wanning began to feel that he would not tire of his office in a hundred years.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910