What is "blackford"

Usage examples of "blackford".

She'd represented this district for years before marrying Hosea Blackford, before becoming first the vice president's wife and then the First Lady.

I'm not a blind man, Flora, and I hope I'm not a fool," Hosea Blackford said, words that might have come right from her speech.

But Hoover hadn't proved any better at fixing the collapse than Socialist Hosea Blackford had before him.

Hosea Blackford said when Flora came back to their apartment after voting: he was still registered in Dakota, and had cast an absentee ballot.

And Al Smith himself didn't want to seem too closely associated with Hosea Blackford even in death: people still blamed Blackford for the business collapse, and Smith didn't want that to rub off on him no matter how unfair it was.

She took people and noise as much for granted as William Blackford took wide open spaces and peace and quiet.

His eulogy, to Flora's ears, was purely conventional, and caught little of what Hosea Blackford had stood for, little of what he had been.

When he'd been a Congressman, Hosea Blackford had got on well with everyone—he'd got on better with reactionary Democrats than Flora ever had.

Flora Blackford repeated the Socialist Party slogan to a street-corner crowd in her district.

His name is Henry Blackford, and the address is somewhere in New York State.

The economic collapse while Hosea Blackford was in the White House, and the rebirth of Confederate military power while Al Smith was.

Flora Blackford didn’t think along with him very often when they met together with the rest of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.

As far as Flora Blackford was concerned, even that was better than he deserved.

Chatterji went to Delhi on business, twice yearly, he would leave Eliot Blackford in charge of his Katmandu home, and prior to each trip the transfer of keys and instructions would be made at the Hotel Anapurna.

Sunday we took Claret for a walk around Blackford Hill and the Hermitage.