Word: beaverisms
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...Beaver Falls...
Fifteen years ago, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) tried hard to convince the world that Hitler was not dangerous. Last week Beaver-brook's Express set the tone for wanting to do business with the Communists, in words that Nye Bevan could not top: "In Britain," said the Express, "the people want world peace . . . The conviction prevails that the world is ready for peace and that governments, whatever their character, must yield to the popular will on this issue . . . Statesmen must obey their master, the public, when the master has made...
...York Herald Tribune a beaver was almost incognito as "the furry, paddle-tailed mammal." CJ In the New York Times, phonograph records became "the noisy disks...
...promising if not too imaginative continuation of a recent Hollywood tendency to take a few cameras off famous faces and train them on the fascinating visage of nature itself. The pacemaker of this trend: Walt Disney's series on animal and vegetable life (Beaver Valley, Nature's Half-Acre, etc.). All these films have their faults; most of them, The Sea included, are burdened with a spoken commentary that comes little short of patronizing God. Yet they are giving ailing Hollywood a much-needed transfusion of real lifeblood...
Lest the colonel be disillusioned, the British press tried to find nice things to say about the ancient foe. Lord Beaver-brook's Evening Standard even detected a trace of the secret Anglophile in the colonel. "All his life," noted the paper's "Londoner's Diary," "he has had his clothes built in Savile Row, as also did his father. When he has been unable to come to London, a Chicago tailor has taken the colonel's measurements and sent them to London." The Standard also pointed out that by buying with dollars in Britain...