Word: linsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above), Irv Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speaker-a quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman. He has been described (inaccurately) as a Jeffersonian Republican and as a political tiglon, yet few voters know what, specifically, Ives represents-except in the broadest general terms...
...Flesh. The ambitious, foredoomed politico this time is restless, willful Jeremiah Beaumont who grew up in backwoods Kentucky, realizing that "I could not take the world as other men for the brightness of the moment and the tickle of the flesh." Apprenticed to Colonel Cassius Fort, a rousing linsey-woolsey lawyer who was leading the poor farmers' fight for "relief" from land debts, Jeremiah fell in love with Rachel Jordan, who had been seduced by Cassius Fort and delivered of a stillborn baby. At first she refused him. Then, in a series of extravagantly emotional scenes, Jeremiah finally wore...
John Calhoun, born to the cotton rows and the linsey-woolsey of a South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for the presidency, but he took such an uncompromising stand on so many unpopular and often sectional issues that he seemed consciously to be disqualifying himself for the big prize...