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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



... school, dressed in white gowns and straw bonnets, whom two elegant but simply dressed young women were superintending. Every voice seemed to be united in singing a certain anthem, which, notwithstanding it was written neither by Tate nor Brady, contains some of the sublimest words which were ever put together, not the worst of which are those which burst on our ears ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... were commoner in the southern and eastern parts of Ohio than in the north, but there was at least one whose chief exploit had the north for its scene. Captain Samuel Brady, in 1780, gathered a number of his neighbors and pursued a retreating war party of Indians from the Ohio as far as the Cuyahoga, near Ravenna. Here he found that the savages far outnumbered his force, and he decided that it would ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... Brady, Glencoe Athletic Club,' he paused. 'I'm on the level,' he added, and paused again. 'I like you a whole lot. There's your friend, Genevieve. Better go after her, hadn't you? Good-bye.' And he was gone, walking swiftly through the crowd about ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... Illinois in the region of the Mississippi River. Subsequently a series of sanguinary battles took place between the Indians and strong Illinois militia forces supported by detachments of United States troops under General Brady. It was not until the beginning of August that Black Hawk was finally defeated, his dwindling horde almost annihilated, and the old chieftain, betrayed into the hands of the whites by the Winnebagos, was made a prisoner ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon

... Anarchists. Here Emma Goldman found friends ready to aid her. Justus Schwab, one of the finest representatives of the German revolutionary period of that time, and Dr. Solotaroff were indefatigable in the care of the patient. Here, too, she met Edward Brady, the new friendship subsequently ripening into close intimacy. Brady had been an active participant in the revolutionary movement of Austria and had, at the time of his acquaintance with Emma Goldman, lately been released ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman


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