Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Bessemer toyed with the notion, other inventors dreamed of it; last week it became a reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...
...laid down and enforced a code of manners (sword-wearing and smoking in front of ladies were banned), ordered all the old ladies to sit in the back rows and all the shyest maidens to dance. The plump, dandiacal "King of Bath," whose crown was an enormous cream-colored beaver hat, ruled society like an autocrat.* Graceful new Georgian buildings transformed Bath into the handsomest of English towns...
...Bath. But now one hardly knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...
...Connecticut, Chester Bowles, sometime eager-beaver OPAdministrator, was picked by Democratic leaders to run for governor, an opportunity he sought in vain two years ago. His November opponent : Governor James C. Shannon, who succeeded the late Governor James L. McConaughy last March...
...year-old French boy named Jean-Marie LePargneur. He, like his fellow tourists, had spent a year at a U.S. school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire cross-country trip for 29 students set A.F.S...