Word: beavered
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...plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful inspection showed that, however erratic the War memorial might be as a whole, most of the individual figures are fit to rank with the best work Sculptor...
...yarn as first printed in the Herald gave Wethersfield, about 20 miles from Perry where there is a beaver dam, as the residence of Herman Strutter, but as the story was relayed Wethersfield was deleted and the Perry date line stuck...
...Week's Best Yarns" are written by Editor Guy Comfort and Associate Editor W. Gordon McGuire of the Herald, the beaver story coming from the imagination of the latter. Instituted as a weekly feature, they have boosted circulation, have the town talking. Every week after the Herald is printed skeptical subscribers want to know if the story is true, who the principal...
...small brown house, apparently removed by pranksters from the construction company equipment on Beaver Street, in back of Dunster House, remained in its strange location until the manager of the theater and the Cambridge police arrived simultaneously to remove...
...Perry, N. Y., Herman Strutter showed incisor marks on the stump of his wooden leg, told his neighbors that while he slept it had been gnawed off by a beaver...