Ethel

• “Frankly, when people think ethics, the name Ethel O’Shea doesn’t usually leap to mind, as you might well imagine.”

  Simon & Schuster: As Husbands Go

• “Phred has had his Windows washed, and everything reinstalled; Ethel is getting the same treatment.”

  he thinks he'll be alright but he doesn't know for sure, like every other unindicted coconspirator

• “Maybe the name Ethel should be changed to ... something else. "”

  Newsweek: Brush Up Your Shakespeare

• “So, anyway, my wife Ethel is just talking with this Russian guy, and she just happens to blurt out that the American fission bomb is based on an imploding-sphere design with synchronized explosive charges placed in a regular, radial pattern along the outside of the sphere.”

  Think Progress » Novak Backs Off Pledge To ‘Reveal All’

• “C2H5 (ethyl, perhaps a pun on the name Ethel), C2H5OH (ethanol),”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4

• “In case you haven’t met her, Ethel is an amazing, fun and fascinating woman.”

  Ethel Stockton's Back! See Her at the Library!

• “The electoral register lists everyone living in the Denton area eligible to vote and I'm damn sure that anyone called Ethel and Wilf have got to be of voting age.”

  Hard Frost

• “Let's make her middle name Ethel" may elicit an obvious groan or just a polite shaking of the head.”

  Doing This Apart - SpouseBUZZ

• “(We couldn't bring ourselves to call Ethel) Nice distraction: The "Pretty in Pink" - era pics of her and her husband Rich (he looked like Spencer Pratt then), as they embarked on baby-making, barely out of their teens.”

  The Washington Post: Who are these women?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#1, Aug. 5)

• “A few weeks after the first case, another patient, a young woman called Ethel Longoria, was just as terrifyingly ill as the first patient.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

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