Denison

[ den-uh-suhn ]

/ ˈdɛn ə sən /

a city in NE Texas.

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Around the same time, Denison saw that a nude painting of Arthur by the artist John Currin had sold for $1.9 million.
Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur|Tim Teeman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“When you get older, you get other things from the show,” Denison says.
Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur|Tim Teeman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The last drawing, he reveals, will be of Arthur sitting at an easel painting Denison.
Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur|Tim Teeman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Denison admits that he shrank from doing the project in the run-up to his birthday last year, when he had planned to start it.
Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur|Tim Teeman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A fan of The Golden Girls and Arthur in particular, Denison is drawing the actress, one sketch a day for an entire year.
Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur|Tim Teeman|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So he ascended to the engine-room and passed the cable ends to Denison, who made them securely fast to adjoining trees.
Doctor Jones' Picnic|S. E. Chapman
Miss Denison, however, was as beautiful as she was young, with the bloom of ideal health upon her perfect skin.
Dead Men Tell No Tales|E. W. Hornung
Mr. Denison's will left his widow a portion of his estate to dispose of as she wished if she did not marry again.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England|Alice Morse Earle
As for Mr. Denison, he was pathetically grateful and relieved when Alice promised to remain.
Stories by English Authors: Orient|Various
I have already mentioned that Denison was very young then; he would not permit such a thing now.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories|Louis Becke