Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest-drawn-out casting to-do since Gone With the Wind, the juicy role of Maria in the forthcoming cine-version of For Whom the Bell Tolls went to dancing Musicomedienne Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig). "Her hair . . . was but little longer than the fur on a beaver pelt," wrote Ernest Hemingway of his heroine, so off came the dancer's ash-blonde glory...
...Silliest kudos (awarded in 1939): Beaver College's "Doctorate of Fortitude and Faith" to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Newark University's "Doctorate of Canine Fidelity" to Bonzo, a Seeing...
...Beaver's case for a second front deliberately brushed beyond such military factors as the Allied shipping shortage, the drain on Britain's home defenses, the difficulties still in the way of all-out U.S. help in a continental offensive. His case rested in a single sentence: "If the Russians are defeated and driven out of the war, never will such a chance come to us again...
Restless because his asthma failed to respond to Florida sunshine, the Beaver hopped to Nassau to visit the Duke of Windsor and other friends. At dinner one night he broke a tooth on a chicken bone, went to the island's most expensive dentist to have it replaced. At week's end the Beaver returned to Miami Beach, gnawed more chicken bones, broke his new tooth...
...sooner had the Beaver left on a U.S. mission than the Army gave Editor Owen six days to report in uniform. (Later he was given three weeks' deferment...