Word: ella
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Ella George of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U. (See PROHIBITION...
...Ella George, of Beaver Falls, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U., an ingenuous, grandmotherly person with a quick smile and cheerful voice, readily took the stand and answered the Senator's questions. "Oh, yes," she said brightly, "the ladies of the W. C. T. U. had stumped for Governor Pinchot willingly at $5 per day, paid by him. They had written the voters letters about his splendid Dry record. They had drummed up money at church meetings and by speeches...
...Guardia's gestures and a series of "nagging" letters from various reformers moved Mr. Andrews to write a letter to President Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. scouting the drugstore concoction as unpalatable and frankly begging "people"-i. e. the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League-to "quit making so much disturbance about little matters and assist the government in accomplishing some big matters...
...Ella Cinders (Colleen Moore). If you study this title carefully and reverse it, you will find that it is not unfamiliar. This current Cinderella is a slavey, wins a beauty contest, becomes a picture star. Her sweetheart is an ice man. Many old quips are kneaded in, even the one about growing sick over a cigar. This is the kind of picture that makes serious supporters of the cinema frantic; and the kind of picture that makes much money. Miss Moore is, as usual, excellent...
...godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...