Word: beavers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder...
...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...