Word: beaverisms
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When the Rossellini baby was born last February in the guarded seclusion of Rome's Villa Margherita Clinic, eager-beaver U.S. and Italian photographers fell all over each other in the rush for an exclusive picture of mother & child. Enthusiastic bidders priced their interest at 5,000,000 lire ($8,000), and newsmen tried every imaginable method of invading the clinic, from offering bribes to the nuns on duty to scaling walls and pretending that their own wives were in the maternity division. But nobody got the picture...
...yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank to the other. The beaver has crept away, but men have built new dams-dams which tame the once treacherous river and produce power for the farmer's lamps. Peace-long-fought-for peace-has settled over the Missouri Valley, and this time it will last...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-doc umented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose ex ploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...