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Ebby

Ebby is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:

  • Ebby DeWeese (1904–1942), American football player
  • Ebby Edwards (1884–1961), English trade unionist
  • Ebby Halliday (1911– 2015), American realtor
  • Ebby Nelson-Addy (born 1992), English footballer
  • Ebby Thacher (1896–1966), sponsor of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson

Usage examples of "ebby".

Heading back to the elevators, Ebby stopped to pen a note in his small, precise handwriting to his secretary.

Otis elevator lifting Ebby with motionless speed to the sixty-sixth floor of the Chrysler Building was thick with cigar smoke and the latest news bulletins.

After the German surrender Ebby had tried to talk the OSS into transferring him to the Pacific theater but had wound up at a debriefing center the Americans had set up in a German Champagne factory outside Wiesbaden, trying to piece together the Soviet order of battle from Russian defectors.

War Department and Ebby, by then married to his pre-war sweetheart, back to Columbia Law School.

Colby glanced at a wall clock, clicked glasses with Ebby again and they both tossed off their drinks.

Frank Wisner, his shirtsleeves rolled up, muttered in his inimitable southern drawl, and the officers within earshot, Ebby among them, laughed under their breaths.

Jockeying in and out of heavy truck traffic, Spink briefed Ebby on the agent: he was a twenty-three-year-old from the westcentral Ukrainian city of Lutsk who had fought for the Germans under the turncoat Russian General Vlasov during the war.

Spink headed back to Frankfurt, Ebby and SUMMERSAULT circled each other cautiously.

Looking around, Ebby took in the sturdy furniture and the gray walls encrusted with squashed insects.

Summoned to explain what had happened, Ebby appeared before a three-man board of inquiry.

Company officers across Germany heard the story on the grapevine and slipped him memos and Ebby boiled them down to an indictment, which he read aloud to the board of inquiry.

An Air Force duty officer brought Ebby a tray filled with warmed Spam and dehydrated mashed potatoes and offered him the use of a cot in a back room.

Spotting Ebby, one of the Czech pilots slid back a cockpit window and gave him the thumbs-up sign.

Frankfurt Station later that morning, Ebby was catnapping on an office cot when Tony Spink shook him awake.

Spink looked at the translator who had been sitting next to Ebby the night of the farewell dinner for the Albanian commandoes in the Heidelberg inn.