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  • Lord & Taylor had, in 1869, entered into an agreement with Robert and Peter Goelet to occupy the property at 895-899 Broadway, and with the Badeau family for the corner lot at 20th Street and Broadway, according to the archives of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

    From Second Empire to Second Chance 2010

  • Lord & Taylor had, in 1869, entered into an agreement with Robert and Peter Goelet to occupy the property at 895-899 Broadway, and with the Badeau family for the corner lot at 20th Street and Broadway, according to the archives of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

    From Second Empire to Second Chance 2010

  • Lord & Taylor had, in 1869, entered into an agreement with Robert and Peter Goelet to occupy the property at 895-899 Broadway, and with the Badeau family for the corner lot at 20th Street and Broadway, according to the archives of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

    From Second Empire to Second Chance 2010

  • Adams did not feel Grant as a hostile force; like Badeau he saw only an uncertain one.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • In all this, Adams took deep interest, for although he was not, like Badeau, waiting for Mrs. Grant's power of suggestion to act on the General's mind in order to germinate in a consulate or a legation, his portrait gallery of great men was becoming large, and it amused him to add an authentic likeness of the greatest general the world had seen since Napoleon.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Badeau, who had come to Washington for a consulate which was slow to reach him, resorted more or less to whiskey for encouragement, and became irritable, besides being loquacious.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Badeau took Adams to the White House one evening and introduced him to the President and Mrs. Grant.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • He blistered the man in a bluff-calling letter of reprimand, reminding Badeau of some shadows in his military past and in essence defying this would-be blackmailer to carry through.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • On April 29, as Grant was dictating the details of the Appomattox campaign,79 the New York World published a cruel article charging that the general was using a ghostwriter: namely his aide and former chronicler, Adam Badeau.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He blistered the man in a bluff-calling letter of reprimand, reminding Badeau of some shadows in his military past and in essence defying this would-be blackmailer to carry through.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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