Word: beaverishness
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...campaign was a nightmare for the shy, beaverish Hoover who hates crowds, strangers, speechmaking, gladhanding. backslapping. Gritting his teeth behind a sickly smile, he went through...
...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...
...week of Nominee Hoover was uneventful, busy-beaverish. It consisted chiefly in trips to and from the broad-terraced Hoover home in Washington to the bare-walled Hoover office at the Department of Commerce. There were no public remarks, no remarkable actions. To avoid the peering public the Hoovers switched churches on Sunday, going to the Quaker meeting house on Irving street instead of the Friends' meeting house at 18th and I streets...
...silence emanating from the Administration's busy beaverish heir and beneficiary became, as the hyperbolists said, almost deafening. Following his telegram of the acceptance to the G. 0. P. Convention, Nominee Hoover addressed no word to the U. S. electorate. He actively avoided contact with the nation's press. He shut himself in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. He left his chunky political secretary, George Akerson, onetime newsgatherer, to answer all questions. Newsmen remarked that this was but a continuation of the policy adopted by Secretary Hoover ever since he seriously began aligning delegates...
...said the crowd. It was a no less than four-times-life-size portrait of the busy-beaverish cause of the demonstration...