Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word "potatoes" for dollars, cried: "You can get this coat for 497 potatoes." A paper-box factory foreman named Cecil Lineback took him at his word. He hurriedly bought the potatoes, rushed into the furrier's, and, after hours of heated negotiation, walked out with a sheared beaver coat...
...since 1883; in Manhattan. Stubborn Socialite-Horseman Rives resisted vigorously as newfangled horseless carriages crowded coaches off the streets, won a 1906 lawsuit in which he charged that an auto had ruined the nerves of one of his horses. He became a gallant last-survivor of the era of beaver hats and smartly tooled four-in-hands...
...seven French-speaking Radcliffe and Harvard undergraduates will be chosen to join half a dozen French students on the stuff of counselors. Director of the Camp will be Crosley Hodgeman, headmaster of Newton's Beaver Country Day School for girls. American counselors will pay their own traveling expenses, a rools bottom figure...
Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
Bracken and the Beaver demanded to see General Cinema Finance's balance sheet. The Beaver's Daily Express hinted that the Stock Exchange might suspend dealings in Odeon stock "until full accounts of the General Cinema Finance Corp. . . . have been published." The Tribune, a Socialist weekly, thought that Rank might have lost so much money on his prestige films for the U.S. market that G.C.F. needed a financial transfusion from Odeon...