Word: beaverishness
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Last week, a thickset, greying, busy-beaverish man sat in his big bare office at the U. S. Department of Commerce...
Life. Most people know that he was born in Iowa, son of a Quaker blacksmith; that he is chunky, round-faced, about six feet high, with beaverish shoulders and neck and with greying hair, much thinner and less brushed down than it used to be, and with his teeth chewed down to a peculiar slant on the left side, where he keeps his cigars. This feature repeats his beaverish aspect which is, of course, enhanced most of all by his well-earned reputation for patient industry and again, perhaps, by his familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through...
ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...