Word: beavered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice in TIME. Dec. 16, that Hoover is asking for appropriations for another commission. This "beaver man,'' as you called him last year, is undoubtedly starting things moving. Many of us old Timers are wondering if he is not undertaking too much. Personally I prefer the policy of his predecessor, who sat still, said nothing, and acted, when he acted, chiefly on the recommendations of big bankers-men who knew what they were doing...
...Beaver Dam, Wis., a family of 40 had a reunion, celebrated by nibbling a 100-year-old egg brought from China which had mystic hieroglyphs on its shell...
...General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal). When Showboat was finished, Universal had plenty of material left over?pantalettes, clippings of river scenes, Joseph Schildkraut's southern accent, beaver hats, some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...
Working like a beaver President Luis strove to avert catastrophe. Timorous coffee brokers announced that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market...