Word: beavered
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...Beaverbrook suffered another severe personal loss when Lady Beaverbrook, the handsome daughter of a Halifax army general, died after 21 years of happy married life. Thereafter the routine job of being a newspaper publisher became almost as boring as money grubbing. One day "the Beaver" locked his office and announced: "I am leaving the Daily Express and never coming back. You young fellows must carry on. Make it a great newspaper...
...hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival meetings, fighting and good catfishing at Beaver Slough...
...Last Frontier, Pilgrims of the Wild, Sajo & the Beaver People, and Tales of ap Empty Cabin. All are published in the U. S. by Scribner and Dodd, Mead...
During the War he served overseas with the Canadian troops, returned wounded in 1917 to become a forest ranger. In 1928 the sufferings of a wounded beaver turned him against trapping. He let his greying hair grow, braided it in pigtails, began to write children's nature stories which were eagerly bought by British magazines...
...lays eggs. Like fish and turtle, it feeds on water-life. Like the mole, it burrows under ground. Like the duck, it has a broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey. No woman would choose it for its beauty or usefu1ness...