Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane chauffeur, costumed in trim livery, was retained last fortnight by Mary du Cauroy, 62, Duchess of Bedford. Recently she purchased a small, conveniently maneuverable "Moth" airplane, and transformed into a landing field the lawn in front of her home, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The chauffeur is the final touch. He now pilots Her Grace back and forth to London, where she is busily engaged in performing electro-physical researches...
...18th Century, when Yankee traders were enterprising and sporting, men wagered guineas along New Bedford and Newburyport waterfronts about fulfillment of time-delivery contracts at Calcutta of clipper-ship cargoes. Last week dark-skinned, poly-tongued Manhattan Coffee Exchange brokers-Greek, Christian, Jew alike-bet furiously on West Indian weather. Could Munson Liner Southern Cross get her 50,000 bags of Rio coffee a-dock at Hoboken before the last trading hour of March? The 50,000 bags were bought and sold. If a hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them...
...University Instrumental Clubs will give a concert in West Newton tonight at 8.15 o'clock. The program will be the same as that given at New Bedford last Friday, except that the Vocal Club will not offer again the new song. "Kavanaugh...
...University Instrumental Clubs will perform in New Bedford tonight under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New Bedford. Fifty men will take part in the annual concert to be given in the New Bedford Hotel...
...Clubs will leave at 3.30 o'clock, arriving at their destination in time for dinner before the concert. The members of the clubs will be entertained in private homes. Immediately after the concert they will be entertained at a dance given in the ballroom of the New Bedford Hotel, returning to Boston at the close of the dance...