Word: beaverisms
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Nearby hung a model showing how the finished beaver case would look, with trees and leaves merging imperceptibly into the painted background...
...WOOD Beaver...
Where are the beards of yesteryear-the "Spade," the "Tile," the "Uncle Sam," the "Van Dyke," the "Piccadilly Weeper," the "Cathedral?" Where is the like of Huguenot Admiral de Coligny's beard, which served as a pincushion for the admiral's toothpicks? Where is the beaver of iyth Century Bishop Camus of Bellai-a growth so formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped...
Canadian-born Lord Beaverbropk, publisher of London's high-powered Daily Express, Sunday Express and Evening Standard, celebrated his yoth birthday at a luncheon given by 600 employees. The Beaver's birthday resolutions...
...After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery to a new $200,000 plant built by eager-beaver boosters in Burlington, N.C. There he branched out into rayon, then an infant industry...