Word: bushrod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair," observed Washington while presiding over the 1787 Constitutional Convention. As President, he set all sorts of standards to which Americans have ever since repaired. When Bushrod Washington, 27, wrote calmly asking appointment as U.S. district attorney for Virginia, his uncle wrote sternly: "My political conduct in nominations, even if I was uninfluenced by principle, must be exceedingly circumspect and proof against just criticism, for the eyes of Argus are upon...
...when he passed it on the river. When he made the deal to buy it, he had also seduced the widow who owned it, but if ever a man reformed for good, it was Clyde. He was not only a model husband but a shrewd businessman. Of course, stepson Bushrod turned out to be a caddish sponger, but stepdaughter Gary was the joy of Clyde's heart. Lucy was loving, but she could not give Clyde a child...