Word: ella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Lady of Song came swinging and singing back to Harvard in style. Riding high in a white limousine, she returned to Cambridge to accept a "Woman of the Year" award from the University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Over 40 years ago, Ella Fitzgerald, 63, had played at Harvard proms. In addition to Hasty Pudding's ritual gifts of a pudding pot and a dozen roses, Fitzgerald got a green-and-yellow basket to commemorate her 1938 hit recording of A-Tisket, A-Tasket. Said a cheery Ella: "Just don't give up trying to do what...
Jazz enthusiasts and drag fans alike took to the streets yesterday to join in the Hasty Pudding Club's 1982 Woman of the Year parade honoring singer Ella Fitzgerald...
...What a day!" the 63-year-old Fitzgerald said as she arrived at Quincy Square amid eager fans, balloons and chants of "Ella." The traditional though unconventional celebration began at 2 p.m. with a procession led by Fitzgerald and two gowned male escorts...
...Reagans were hit with hurricane force by the shootings of Pope John Paul II and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, something beyond their imaginations even after Ronald Reagan himself was wounded. They were lofted to heights of delight by Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton, two entertainers at the White House who took them way back when...
...meadow near Eureka, Calif., on the state's rocky northern coast, 50 Yurok Indians gathered for an unusual ritual. After three younger members of the tribe hollowed out a bit of earth, a Yurok leader reverentially placed seven bags in the hole. Ella Norris, 83, the tribe's oldest member, moved forward. Raising her eyes toward the sky, she said a prayer in English and in the language of her forebears: "We are sorrowful for the sacrilegious actions of the past. May these remains lie peacefully at rest forever...