Ethel
Americannoun
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Later, Whittaker and his family went on skiing and rafting trips with Robert and Ethel Kennedy and their children.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
“Today we were talking about doing something about the Kennedys, and it was like, ‘in the vault, there’s this time we went to Hyannis Port onto the Kennedy compound with Ethel Kennedy,’ ” Frazier said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Avery McTaggart, an agent at L.A.-based TBA Agency whose clients include Jungle, Big Thief, Remi Wolf and Ethel Cain, says the premise of an AI agent risks oversimplifying what booking agents actually do.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
The student at the Ethel Walker School also has researched and picked a stock for the Simsbury, Conn., private school’s investment portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
They would put Joe away, but there’d be someone else, and there was always Ethel.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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