Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange pair in British public life have been Mephistophelean Lord Beaverbrook, 64, nominally Tory, and the editor of his deft, double-edged Evening Standard: Michael Foot, 30, cold, keen and Left. The Beaver has a weakness for tough guys, likes raising hell, hates softness in any form. Mike Foot hates old-line Tories. Last week the two deftly altered their two-year-old official relationship and deftly left their unofficial partnership untouched...
Hard Work and Schmalz. Editor Christiansen's success is due partly to hard work, partly to his unchanging conviction that folks like to read about events which burst from the emotions of men & women, partly to "The Beaver's" penchant for young hustlers in top jobs...
Personally kind but professionally exacting, Chris ceaselessly pinpricks his "Beaver's Eaglets" into working harder. He does not hesitate to fire them for repeated blunders, is just as quick to spread praise on thick for jobs well done. His men swear by him, call him Chris, like the way he hobnobs with the greenest beginners in off-hours, buying drink for drink with them...
...terrible reply from Germany" to Allied air raids, said that fear of German retaliation "hangs like a nightmare over the British masses." The British masses, long accustomed to secret-weapon bogies, smiled tolerantly when London papers put his outcry on Page One. Labor's Daily Herald and Beaver-brook's Sunday Express condescendingly mentioned the report as pure propaganda...
When the ice went out in the Donjek, the White, the Robertson, the Johnson, the Duke and the Beaver, it took most of the timber bridges with it. Then the rains sluiced down. In some places The Road melted into the tundra. From April 15 until last week, there was no through traffic between Whitehorse and Fairbanks...