Word: ison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his role as one of the University's most prolific writers, Morison still holds the title of Historian on ison 300th Anniversary of Harvard College. In connection with this office, Morison is constantly answering letters addressed either to him personally or relayed to him by Dean Bundy. He also receives letters from secondary school students all over the country, which he answers only when they ask for specific information. Of the more general type of inquiry he says, "they want me to do their work for them," and so most of these requests end up in the wastebasket...
...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...
...World. Von Teuffel, suggest the violently pro-Harriet biographers, acted at the instigation of P'ison Jim Seymour, who had helped finance Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved...
...first five years of political unrest, ends twelve days after the beginning of civil war. Gironella tries to mirror every segment of Spanish society, from wild-eyed anarchists to stuffy professors, "from the bishop to the bootblack." The novel's hero, if it has one, is Ignacio, ison of a poor but intelligent civil servant. His mother is a devout Catholic, his brother a saintly boy headed for the priesthood. Ignacio's dilemma is that he likes to see things whole, can swallow neither the fiery threats and promises of the anarchists and Communists nor the sterile programs...