Word: beavered
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...help the proposed committee in its task, some 400 Canadians had already sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...
...squad's loquacious trainer, Roland ("Beaver") Bevan, is good at both. He is as well stocked with football lore as Doc Blanchard's father was, and he has enough pain-curing equipment to stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
...couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook's eye. With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer...
Married. Joseph Wharton Lippincott, 58, tall, big-game-hunting (caribou, bear, antelope) publisher (J. B. Lippincott Co.), author of nature books for children (Chisel Tooth, the Beaver); and Virginia Jones Mathieson, 45, Philadelphia socialite ; both for the second time; in Meadowbrook...
...despite "ye meagre harvest," the Pilgrims felt that they had much to be thankful for. They had made a start in the beaver trade, not trapping but buying skins from the Indians. Dissension in the colony itself had measurably lessened. So they decreed a special day of thanksgiving that all "might rejoyce together." Four men were sent to shoot waterfowl. Friendly Indians presented five deer, so for three days the Pilgrims gorged "on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish ... all washed down with wine 'very sweete & stronge.' " Then they settled down to another winter...