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Goodspeed

American  
[good-speed] / ˈgʊdˌspid /

noun

  1. Edgar Johnson, 1871–1962, U.S. Biblical scholar and translator.


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He officially earned his Actors’ Equity card in 2004 for a production of “Where’s Charley?” at the Goodspeed Opera House, he told Playbill in 2009.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Investigating four centuries of British and American data, Mr. Goodspeed concludes that the apparent business cycles that economists have spent careers documenting are “apophanies” rather than epiphanies: illusions of pattern imposed on noise.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Real life is less faithful to that neat story line, according to Tyler Goodspeed, a Harvard and Cambridge-trained economic historian and the chief economist of Exxon Mobil.

From Barron's Apr. 5, 2026

The origins of food-focused art date back to 17th and 18th-century Dutch still life paintings, in which food was utilized as “a narrative device,” wrote Elizabeth Goodspeed for the creative platform It’s Nice That.

From Salon Jun. 29, 2025

I am certain I will be the face in the yearbook everybody will look at and say, “Bobby Goodspeed? I don’t remember anybody named Bobby Goodspeed.”

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

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