Word: weaverization
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...native weaver from the Gold Coast of West Africa was introduced to the King and then to the Queen. He understood the position of the King well enough, but that of the Queen was entirely a mystery. Colonel Levy, General Manager of the Exhibition, explained that she was "the King's missus...
Married. Peggy Wood, famed actress, to John V. A. Weaver, poetauthor-critic (in American, etc.) ; at Hamilton, Bermuda...
John V. A. Weaver, the spry author of In American, Finders, etc., has now vanished to Florida where, having encased his slender form in a bathing suit, he is doubtless polishing the surface of his play?a play written, I hear, in "the American language...
...Weaver is slim, dark, active, almost jumpy. He is perennially young; at least he looks easily ten years younger than he is, and he's still under thirty. He is a Southerner, but long years in the Middle West have quite obliterated any trace of a Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized...
...Ernest Poole once told me that now that the saloon had vanished as a place in which to overhear conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy of his ex-pressions?but I am sure of the spirit of them?and, therefore, they are nearer right...