Word: bedford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Richard Upjohn, a bearded, sanctimonious Briton, was a carpenter & cabinet maker with a nice appreciation of Perpendicular Gothic, who settled in New Bedford, Mass, in the late 1820's. A contractor friend one day passed his shop with a roll of drawings for a New England courthouse. Each one was labeled, "Alexander Harris, architect...
Promptly he published an advertisement in the New Bedford Mercury...
...Bedford, May 2--The 108-foot British oil screw vessel, Accuracy, was detained by Coast Guards at New Bedford today while Customs Officials and guardsmen hunted 3000 cases of smuggled liquor, valued at $50,000, reported landed and concealed somewhere between Nonquitt and Smith's Neck during the night...
Canada's Governor-General is named on the advice of the Canadian Premier. King-loving Richard Bedford Bennett would undoubtedly have been delighted to please his King by advising that a King's son be named the next Governor-General. But Canadian elections are coming and Bennett may not be Premier after them. Therefore His Majesty's Government consulted, not only Bennett, but also the leader of the Opposition, Liberal Mackenzie King, who is a good friend of Buchan. King advised strongly against a King...
...students who come and go in their brief generations knew her but slightly, but the members of the faculty, most of whom she greeted by name, will feel a real and sincere sorrow at finding her missing from her accustomed place. Each day she drove in from Bedford in her own car. Most of those who for a long time have been closely connected with the Society cannot remember a day on which she was not at her post. It is fitting that reverent notice be taken of the passing of a much beloved Harvard figure...