Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Fenenga, archeologist of the University of California (where the cyclotrons grow biggest), has a "rainmaking bag" that once belonged to a 103-year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...
...blind date one afternoon he met a girl from Beechwood School (now Beaver College) at Jenkintown, Pa. Often thereafter Tacho, flowers in hand, waited under the eagle in Wanamaker's to take Salvadora Debayle to a tea dance or movie. Later, to be near his Salvadorita, he stayed in Philadelphia for several years as bookkeeper at a Graham-Paige agency on Broad Street...
Eight 'Cliffe water lovers promised to help the sons of M. I. T. with a bit of entertainment November 20 at the Techpol. The Beaver Key Society thought this one up, a female water polo game and then a dance. Wheelock swimmers consented to fight it out with Radcliffe...
Europe's leftist press-and by many other papers. U.S. newsmen in Paris became curious. A quick check showed that some overeager beaver in Moscow had committed a prize boner. The map in question was entitled: "War Map III, featuring the Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
Furious, Lord Beaverbrook had ordered his evening Standard to come to the defense of his morning Express. Eager Beaver-boys combed the files for old tomatoes to throw at Cummings. They could find little or nothing-even after they had called the victim himself for help. Highly amused, A.J. told the News Chronicle to give Beaver's boys anything they wanted. When the Standard finally got its editorial blast together, the unpredictable Beaver objected that it didn't give his old personal friend and political enemy his due as a journalist. The more Lord Beaverbrook thought about...