Ethel

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Ethel Merman belt out “Everything’s Coming Up Roses!”

Lucy and her friend Ethel are tasked with wrapping chocolates passing by on a conveyor belt.

In short order, the speed of the belt increases, and Lucy and Ethel are overwhelmed, incapable of completing the task at hand.

Most of the protagonists have now died but not the two boys, now men, for whom Ethel wanted desperately to be a mother, nor the social worker who helped her, before she was arrested, in her then primary goal of becoming a better mother.

However, I fervently believe 2021 is a potent time to look again at Ethel as a woman in her own right, not just one half of the Rosenbergs.

In 1919, Ethel Parsons and Telfor Paullin made a painting that lifts hearts and souls, just by being fine art.

So welcome back, Edna and Ethel; come on down, Gertrude and Percy; walk right in, Wilhelmina and Wolfgang.

The elevator descended with a draft," he writes, "chilling Ethel in all the damp spots.

In 1960, she made her Broadway debut in Gypsy, opposite Ethel Merman.

Lucy and Ethel wish to go to a nightclub, while Ricky and Fred would rather go see a fight.

Norman tarried to put his books into a neat leather case, and Ethel stood thinking.

Miss Winter glanced unutterable things at Margaret, and Ethel began to perceive she had done something wrong.

Nor did Ethel know that that caricature had been the cause of the black eye that Harry had brought home last summer.

Ethel's understanding perceived, but her mind refused to grasp the extent of the calamity.

The first true pang of grief shot through Ethel like a dart, stabbing and taking away her breath, "Where are they?"