Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's most brilliant newspaper publisher. His principal paper, the Daily Express (circ. 3,850,000), is the largest in the world. Brief, colorful, clear, the Express is also, technically, one of the best newspapers in the world. Its editorial opinions are no wiser or more enlightened than Beaver-brook's own: the paper is his mouthpiece...
Because of the Daily Express' tremendous circulation, its daily report on the world colors the attitudes of millions of Britons. Thus, the opinions of The Beaver, quite differently from Churchill's,* are of prime importance to the U.S. What world do readers see as reported in the Express...
...Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...
...Editor Cudlipp was an office boy on a Welsh paper at 14, a London theater critic at 20. When Beaverbrook made him boss of his Evening Standard at 27, Cudlipp became Fleet Street's youngest editor.* Leaving the Beaver for the "politically more congenial" Herald in 1938, Cudlipp, an amateur versifier, dashed off his own epitaph: "One satisfaction I have had, and this will be eternal; I may become a left-wing cad, but I once ran a high-class journal...
...native of Argentina and nearby countries, the nutria is a rodent that looks rather like an uncivilized (no dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...