Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stetson, the sickly son of a New Jersey hatter, joined an expedition to Pike's Peak for his health. On the trip he startled his companions by scraping fur off raw hides, chewing it up, spitting the juice through his teeth to produce crude felt. The broad-brimmed beaver hat that he made with the felt was the butt of all the camp's jokes. But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business...
...Eager Beaver. In Atlanta, Mosky Yalovitz absentmindedly placed his new $12.50 hat on a counter in his own store, later discovered that an eager clerk had sold it for a buck...
...opposite political pole), talented, ambitious Frank Owen had been a Liberal M.P. at 23, the socialist editor of the imperialist Evening Standard at 32, a soldier correspondent at 37. His latest professional hurdle took him from his prewar job with Lord Beaverbrook into the camp of the Beaver's keenest journalistic rival, Lord Rothermere. Some Tory friends of Rothermere's thought he was on a sticky wicket in hiring (for a reported $40,000 a year) "that notorious leftist...
...Eager Beaver. In Granville, Wis., the town's only paid fireman, Calvin Shult. confessed to 100 false alarms, explained that he wanted to promote enough business to justify a pay raise...
Detlev, F. Vaghts '49--Toni Packman (Beaver...