Word: milford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milford Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves is no more. After functioning for one hundred and thirty years in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts it has at last yielded to the firm grasp of finality. To all appearances the vigilantes of the state have no longer fear of the horse thief. He has gone the way of all the figures of a less mechanical past. So the Irish leader of the English stage can arrange no more "She wings of Blascos". Like the dodo, Shaw's hero has become extinct...
...told fortunes by colored vans in country lanes now make fortunes with colored sedans from coast to coast, so the horse thief who once led stolen mares to a ready market now steers stolen Marmons to dealers in modern antiques. Indeed, the last page of the records of the Milford Society should contain, and obituary notice, not of the horse thief but of the horse, and above the seal of the society should be placed a membership card...
...Saul Makrauer. In Yale '07 (Sheffield Scientific School) his name was Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
Nevertheless, there came a time (1916) when it was thought that there were "more distractions in the town than was good for the students." And the Rosenbaum brothers founded the Milford School at a village thus named, hard by New Haven on Long Island Sound. This was distinctly not a cramming or tutoring school, yet retained "all the charm of the old regime"?i. e. special attention to individual cases, never more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students...
...Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, cousin of King George, was represented by Admiral Mark Kerr before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. A claim was made for royalties for the Battenberg course indicator?an ingenious and invaluable instrument to navigators, aerial or naval?invented by her late husband, Prince Louis of Battenberg (name changed by King George to Milford Haven in 1917), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914. The claim was sympathetically heard but was thought likely to be disallowed because, at the time of the invention, naval officers were not allowed to sell inventions to the State...