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Brady   /brˈeɪdi/   Listen
Brady

noun
1.
United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896).  Synonym: Mathew B. Brady.
2.
United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917).  Synonyms: Diamond Jim, Diamond Jim Brady, James Buchanan Brady.



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"Brady" Quotes from Famous Books



... had visited the New York State agency office in Fayette Street and I arranged for him to go there again the next morning (Friday), he to tell the representative, Mr. Ferry, that some friends would call to be assisted in preparing their votes. We agreed that my name would be "Phillip Brady," from West Chazy, ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith

... caused by the variable amount of rain which falls in the vast area of country drained by the Lakes. Thus, at Fort Brady, where the mean of five years' observations is 29.68 inches, the extremes are 36.92 ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various

... 20, 1881, upon the death of President Garfield, Vice President Arthur received a group at his home in New York City to take the oath of office, administered by New York Supreme Court Judge John R. Brady. The next day he again took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, in the Vice President's Office in ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... most of these old papers are as soporific as a bed of poppies. Here we have an erudite clergyman, or perhaps a Cambridge professor, occupying several successive weeks with a criticism on Tate and Brady, as compared with the New England version of the Psalms. Of course, the preference is given to the native article. Here are doctors disagreeing about the treatment of a putrid fever then prevalent, and blackguarding each other ...
— Old News - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... to learn that you are in trouble, Mr. Ware," Father Forbes said, gently enough, but in hurried tones. "Miss Madden is also in trouble. I mentioned to you that her brother had got into a serious scrape. I have brought my old friend, General Brady, to consult with her about the matter. He knows all the parties concerned, and he can set things right ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic


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