Word: kinnikinick
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Little Gid Planish, aged ten, dreams of being something "rotund and oratorical." At college he concludes that virtue has to be organized. At 29 he is Dr. Gideon Planish, Professor of Rhetoric in Kinnikinick College, Iowa. He wears a small brown beard and is ready to jettison his too-provincial mistress. Already expert at self-deception and hypocrisy, he does not get rid of Teckla for his own good, but for hers. Thinks Gideon: "It wouldn't be fair to take her off to New York and Washington and face those snobs and intriguers...
...entry into the war moves Gideon, nearly shakes him loose from Marduc. Offered the presidency of Kinnikinick College, Gideon is nostalgically tempted. But Peony Planish keeps him in the field of big-league ballyhoo while she meets "honeybee" Gideon's best friend at the dreary Hex Hotel...
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