Word: beaverisms
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...this process an imitation beaver coat retailing at about $150-less than one-fourth the cost of genuine beaver-can be made from shorn sheep pelts. Unshorn skins can be converted into longhaired "furs" such as fox, complete with silvery sheen. The manufacturers even talk of imitating mink. The synthetic furs are more durable than the genuine article...
...Britain (i.e., the Beaver) has apparently agreed to drop the idea of a central authority...
...Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle Jr., who recently talked with the Beaver in London) has tentatively agreed to let Britain have exclusive rights between the home island and the Crown Colonies (Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Gibraltar, etc.). At least, the Beaver said so last week...
Ernest Hemingway, sporting a lush bush, was nightclub-sitting with Fellow Author John Steinbeck, who has just started to become a beaver, when (reported New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons) they were asked: "Why the beards?" Steinbeck: "Obviously, an affectation." Hemingway: "Obviously, to cover a rash...
...Commons last week, Winston Churchill parried a thrust at his close association with Publisher Lord Beaverbrook (TIME, April 10). Socialistic Sir Richard Acland, Common Wealth Party leader, sharply asked if the rule which bars Cabinet Ministers from engaging in journalism had been suspended to favor the brash, busy Beaver and his London Daily Express. Said Churchill: "The proprietorship of newspapers has never been held to be journalism in the ordinary sense...