Word: bedford
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Died. Cromwell Arthur Bedford Halvorson, 80, inventor and General Electric engineer, who turned Thomas Edison's original light bulb into a flood of stop lights, headlights and searchlights, most notably the arc light that in 1911 made Broadway the Great White Way; of a heart attack; in Salem, Mass...
...Bedford Incident, Rascovich 7. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West 8. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart...
Hetty; it had been in the family for years. She was a Robinson from New Bedford, and her grandfather had amassed a great whaling fortune. Growing up as an only child, Hetty learned the uses of money the way other youngsters learned their nursery rhymes. Her father used to prop her on his knee and read her the stock quotations. When Hetty Robinson, at 31, married 46-year-old Vermont Millionaire Edward Henry Green, she was already by inheritance one of the richest women in the U.S.; her bridegroom was said to have signed a statement renouncing all future rights...
Graduated from the Andover-Newton Theological School in 1893, Rev. Oxnard's first pastorate was in Portland, Maine. He has also had parishes in Lawrence, Newton, New Bedford, Rehoboth, Southboro and Boxboro...
...Favourite of the Gods, by Sybille Bedford. Grand opera without music, about the dynastic rich of 19th century Europe, by a novelist with a fine feel for revoked wills, missing rubies, and the trials of being wellborn...