Word: wickford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WICKFORD POINT-John P. Marquand -Little, Brown...
...When I was at Harvard it had been the fashion to live in ugly frame houses which lined the streets off Massachusetts Avenue . . . . now that the entire academic scene had changed I did not feel at home," relates Marquand's fictional Harvard alumnus in "Wickford Point...
...befitted her destiny, Maria Bowen Chapin was well born, daughter of a Wickford, R. I. manufacturer. Behind her were a grandfather and great-grandfather who had been Governors of the State. Educated in private schools in Providence, Maria Chapin went to New York in the '90s, began to teach small groups of her friends' children. In 1901, with seven teachers and some 75 pupils, she founded Miss Chapin's School on West 47th Street...
...Mabel Hayward put in a claim last week for a share of the Wendel estate. Buxom, 46-year-old Mrs. Hayward keeps house for a 76-year-old retired detective, Capt. Theodore Lawton, on his ramshackle farm at Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died...
...Wickford, England, John Andrew put an electric bulb on the seat of a chair, sat in the chair, died of fright when the bulb exploded with a loud...