Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
...unlucky. It was the hired man. "He said sure he'd marry her but he never. Just skipped out." Bell's man stood by her. "He was here and they was married a good half-hour before the baby come." Ma had to get the sheriff after Ella's Oscar, but then everything was all right. Laura's baby "come so little ahead of time it wasn't hardly noticeable," but poor Laura married the wrong man. When Lizzie and Carl had a lover's quarrel, Ma straightened it out herself with a shotgun...
...Little Chillun! (by Hall Johnson; Robert Rockmore, producer). Jim, son and assistant preacher to Pastor Jones of Hope Baptist Church (colored), is drawn from his good wife Ella by the flashing eyes of Sulamai, a loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai he attends a meeting of the New Day Pilgrims, a strange sect who worship the moon out in the cypress swamps with four-part harmony and orgiastic dancing. Sulamai seems to have an irresistible appeal for the minor clergy. Writhing in ecstasy among the half-naked New Day Pilgrims, she also...
...Died. Ella Nirdlinger Nathan, 70, mother of Theatre Critic George Jean Nathan; after an illness of several months; in Philadelphia...
...brother Hugh has described Sculptor Lenz as a man who hated capitalism, bullfights and time clocks; liked butter, sleeping outdoors, violets and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Particularly since the War, the ideals of modern art are diametrically opposed to the little nymphs of Alfred Lenz with their fluttering draperies. All artists respect the knowledge and dexterity that went into their manufacture, look forward to exciting developments that general knowledge of the Lenz process will bring...