Yetta
Americannoun
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Her Jewish great-grandparents, Abraham Simon and Rhoda Yetta Freeman and their eight children, including Lill's grandmother Florrie, came to Newry in about 1890 from Kaunas in Lithuania, part of the then Russia.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2021
Yetta Cohn, with whom the star was said to have had an affair — the pair are mentioned in Arthur Laurents’s memoir, “Original Story By” — pops up at regular intervals.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019
She was a regular as feisty Grandma Yetta on the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny,” and in the early 1960s, played Millie Helper, Laura Petrie’s gabby pal, on the acclaimed “Van Dyke” series.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2016
Ydanis Rodriguez, a Democratic City Councilmember from northern Manhattan, became one of those arrested, said Yetta Kurland, an attorney with the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, in an e-mailed news release.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 16, 2011
He spoke with an accent, and his family connections consisted, principally, of being the son of Solomon and Yetta Bickel of Bucharest, Romania, by way, most recently, of Brooklyn.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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