Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaver-chinned Monty Woolley offered a thought on Hollywood: "The only place in the world where you can fall asleep under a rosebush and freeze to death...
...psychological lift; he would unquestionably attract millions of "independent voters." Democrats had hoped to make hay out of Republican failure to push through reclamation projects in the West. But it would be futile to play that game against Republican Earl Warren, one of the foremost spokesmen of the eager-beaver West...
...American Democracy is such a study. Readers are not likely to rank it (as his eager-beaver publishers do) with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) and Lord Bryce's American Commonwealth (1888). But they will find that it stands head & shoulders above the kind of superficial once-over exemplified by, say, John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (TIME, June...
Side-Swipe. In Rome, Wis., Motorist Frank Beaver swerved violently to avoid a dog on a bridge, knocked down the bridge...
...Said beaver-toothed Joe DiMaggio, with a grin: "Seems like it's the first time I've ever been ready for an opening game." No gimpy shoulder, no ulcer complaints, no bad heel troubled him this year: he felt good. If DiMag was ready, so were the New York Yankees. They were co-favorites-along with the Boston Red Sox-to win the American League pennant...