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  • So, at the end in the pivotal scene when Ester is wearing her cherished necklace in one frame, not in the next, and then once again a second later ... well, it felt like a vindication.

    Reality Check Ahead 2007

  • This remarkable product is also infused with potently stable Vitamin Ester C and promises to improve skin texture and tone in as few as 10 days and visibly reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles in as little as 2 weeks.

    Products Gone ‘Green’ 2007

  • Benecol contains the unique ingredient Plant Stanol Ester, which is clinically proven to reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol by up to 14% after just 2 weeks.

    Functional Food: Benecol Strawberry and Berries Drink Steve Carper 2008

  • In the evening the young ladies of the school gave us a performance of "Ester," in which Mlle. Augué, who afterward married Marshal Ney, enacted the leading rôle very well.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • It certainly could not be wealth which made Abbie's life such a happy one, for she regulated her expenses with a care and forethought such as Ester had never even dreamed of.

    Ester Ried 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

  • "Ester" and "You Are the Way" filled their 45 minutes on stage.

    HM 2009

  • Grandmammy name Ester and she belonged to our Marse Tom Still, too. "

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

  • "Ester," said she, "I'm positively afraid that you are growing into a saint, and I know that I'm a sinner.

    Ester Ried 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

  • "Ester," she said quietly, "I don't think you are 'playing good;' I

    Ester Ried 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

  • "Ester," said Abbie quickly, "I couldn't marry a man who was not a

    Ester Ried 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

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  • "Ester City, outside Fairbanks, was named in honor of prostitute Ester Duffy, who was long famous for charming high-rollers. She had accompanied pioneers to Circle City, where she established a reputation for good-heartedness and generosity. Billy Chappell, one of Dawson's most successful miners (who eventually made millions by investing in Seattle's red light district), gave her a piano for the opening of a whorehouse called the Jewel, which she started near the American Army post of Fort Gibbon. Somehow Ester went broke there, but she sold the piano to prostitute Babe Wallace for $1,000 for another stake, following Clarence and Frank Berry to a new camp. Clarence Berry, perhaps the Klondike's most successful miner, was happily married but his brother, Frank, may have been the reason Ester established her California Hotel there. The town, originally named Berry, was re-christened in Ester's honor for reasons better left unresearched."

    --Lael Morgan, Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush (Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle: Epicenter Press, 1998), p. 289-290

    January 31, 2017