Glidden

[ glid-n ]

/ ˈglɪd n /

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noun

Charles Jasper, 1857–1927, U.S. businessman: a pioneer in the telephone industry.

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For two weeks Ruth Glidden stood at the right hand of Mrs. Myers, and supplemented the trained nurse in the sick room.
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Miss Glidden and her party had at first been placed in quarters which the young lady did not find to her taste.
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I believe in my soul that Glidden would gladly have seen his daughter marry one of the Brierly boys.
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Miss Glidden is still bent upon crossing, and your wife is her willing abettor.
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The handwriting was that of Ruth Glidden, and the stationery that of a fashionable Piccadilly dressmaker.
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