Word: burd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...