Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ella Bishop was a charter member of Midwestern College. In those dim Victorian undergraduate days she was the most popular member of a daringly co-educational experiment. And after her four bright college years an admiring faculty invited her to join them as teacher of grammar. Ella took her job very seriously, even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with...
Meantime Midwestern was growing older and bigger; Ella, now Miss Bishop and a campus landmark, grew with it. Love came once more, in the shape of a middle-aged professor, but he had a wife. Miss Bishop's mother went crazy, rocked back & forth in her room for nine years. The professor's unwanted wife died; on his way to Miss Bishop he was killed in an accident. Miss Bishop's salary was cut; her savings went down the drain when her bank failed. But when cheering alumni gave her a testimonial dinner all Miss Bishop...
Birthdays. George Foster Peabody, Si; George Bernard Shaw, 77; Ella Alexander Boole, 75; Henry Ford, 70; Benito Mussolini...
...Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded men and women" to renounce the dripping major political parties, form a Dry third. And after eight years Brooklyn's scrappy little Ella Alexander Boole, 74, resigned the organization's presidency, in favor of a "younger woman...
...Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel was hardly in her grave before heirs far from apparent began to clamor for a slice of the fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and then grounded in Manhattan. Whole European villages claimed Wendel blood. From Brooklyn came a dull-witted housepainter who, as the self-styled son of the last male Wendel, laid siege to the whole estate, was sentenced to jail for conspiracy. One by one Surrogate Foley eliminated 2.,294 claims. After eleven months of spectacular hearings four fifth-degree relatives settled...