Mr Wolstencroft said "Nellie" was probably Pte Wolstencroft's sister Ellen, who was known as Nellie.
The card was sent to Private Edward Wolstencroft of the Royal Fusiliers by a woman called Nellie in April 1915.
Nellie Geraghty, 79, was found clutching the strap of the bag which was taken from her in Shaw, Greater Manchester, on 24 November.
Waist-high water rushed into the front door of the house of Green's aunt, Nellie Green Francis, and pushed much of her life out the back door.
Thus he did not share in the bebop vogue of the late 1940s, pursuing his own researches and earning very little, supported by the indefatigable Nellie.
He'd had an early-morning meeting at Greece's central bank, given the keynote speech at an event on corporate social responsibility, then had dinner with his wife, Nellie.
Nellie negotiated that sum down a bit and forced the Athens Stock Exchange to freeze trading of Alumil stock so that the kidnappers couldn't force her to liquidate the family's 70% holding.
"The running joke is that you can take time off, but when you come back, you pay the price for it, " said Nellie Borrero, Accenture's managing director of global inclusion and diversity.
Yet Claire Tomalin, whose studies of Mary Wolstonecraft, Nellie Ternan and Dorothea Jordan have proved her to be one of our most painstaking, distinguished and sympathetic biographers, has produced a portrait of remarkable subtlety.
Not on your nellie, say Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton from London Business School (LBS), in an annual study of global investment returns sponsored by ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, that was published last week.
He was such a nervous Nellie, too.
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Several players who fell just short in the BBWAA balloting later were elected by either the Veterans Committee or Old-Timers' Committee: Nellie Fox (74.7 percent on the 1985 BBWAA ballot), Jim Bunning (74.2 percent in 1988), Orlando Cepeda (73.6 percent in 1994) and Frank Chance (72.5 percent in 1945).
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