Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardor: "Lord Beaverbrook's opinions are his own but . . . must not be taken as representing the considered policy of the Conservative Party." But Churchill specifically rejected only one of Beaverbrook's points-the minimum wage. Despite past political differences, it looked as if Churchill and The Beaver might be allies again in the stormy election weather that lay ahead...
...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
Once, when Beaverbrook did act without consulting Franks, he got himself into difficulties. The Beaver turned up at a cabinet meeting with a set of inaccurate labor figures, which Franks and his statisticians could have told him were wrong. Bevin, who loathed Beaverbrook, was quick to spot the error. In the cabinet meeting they started quarreling and Churchill had to intervene saying: "I really can't have two of my cabinet ministers carrying on like this," "Well,", said Bevin, "I won't accept those figures from Beaverbrook. I'll accept them only from Franks...
When the Black Magic caught up with Shirley May, Reporter Musel climbed up in the rigging, relayed his tardy report to U.P. by walkie-talkie. An eager-beaver Mutual newscaster tried to creep down beside Shirley May for a waterside interview, but she was too busy. From the Black Magic's deck, Frank Sinatra records beamed encouragement to the struggling swimmer: "Down & down I go, round & round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide . . . under That Old Black Magic . . ." The Red Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman...
...team of specialists on the job could be reasonably sure that when it was done not a brush stroke, a clumsily veined leaf, a speck of dust or a beaver hair out of place would mar the illusion of paralyzed reality. Fooling the eye, they agreed, is just a matter of patience and technique...