Word: sevier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these discharges of verbal grapeshot infuriate Crump's enemies, they charm and stimulate his admiring friends and followers. For Ed Crump, a ruthless, rawhiding, ramrodding political boss, is also a dramatic figure molded in the fighting Tennessee tradition of Andy Jackson, Sam Houston, and Nolichucky Jack Sevier-and thousands of Tennesseans love...
...years later the penitent lawmakers paid her back and for good measure hung her portrait (titled "savior of the Alamo") on a capitol wall. One of the legislators was Newspaperman Henry Hulme Sevier, founder of the Austin American. By the time he married the fiery-eyed, sabertongued heiress in 1906 she had written two novels, a musicomedy (Mexicana) which the Shuberts produced on Broadway. And she was already up to her pretty neck in politics, business, philanthropy...
Franklin Roosevelt made Hal Sevier Ambassador to Chile in 1933. But the Seviers' stay in Santiago was short. In four years Texas' rich daughter was divorced, back home, back in politics.. Into the abortive effort to make Jack Garner president she threw all her energy and, it was said, $250,000. After Brother Bob Jr. died in 1929, she ruled the family domain of oil fields and ranches all alone. When Hal Sevier died in 1940 she changed her name (to Mrs. Clara Driscoll) but not her fast, energetic pace...
...Vagabond had heard about Mike in a history lecture last December. Old Mike was only one of a long line of memorable individuals who had marched before him in that lecture series. Indian fighters like James Robertson and Sevier, and Wilkinson, who drew a general's and a spy's pay at the same time, were others who had excited Vag's imagination...