Word: beavered
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...republic is being safeguarded from every possible angle; adopting the methods of modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit," he warns grimly, "in the curse...
...consulting engineer, he invented the cement gun. For his African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...
That question enters and reenters the mind of whoever watches (from behind a pillar) the roaring revolutions, evolutions, devolutions of Mr. Skinner's cane; the extravagant movements of his beaver. The play really need never be played. Melodrama has died its natural death. And even French melodrama with occasional wit is brief in its amusement...
When an excellent actor grows old he grows sentimental, a trifle lazy. Mr. Skinner is growing old. So there is some reason for his leaving the donkey and the organ for the beaver and the cane of Colonel Phillipe, defender of the honor of the family and so many, many francs! Francs! There the Gallic flavor enters. One wonders if this should not be recommended to the business school. Not in many moons has the power of a franc appeared so vast...
...University opens the 1926 football season at 3 o'clock this afternoon when the Crimson eleven meets the unusually powerful Geneva College team from Beaver Falls, Pa. On the ever of the first clash of the year, Coach Arnold W. Horween '21 made the following statement: "I realize we are meeting the hardest first game competition of any Harvard team in many years, but my team is as far along as can possibly be expected, and I feel that we will make a good showing...