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Abstractions In Canterbury. The earliest of the manuscripts, dating from the dark ages of Europe, had been strongboxes of Christian culture. Done mostly on calfskin parchment and laced with burnished gold and rainbow colors, they had kept fresh and shining through the centuries. One of them, an 8th Century psalter believed to have been made by the monks of Canterbury, was decorated with twining capital letters as abstract and whimsically complicated as any paintings produced today. Another, dating from the early 9th Century in France, was a book of the four Gospels written entirely in gold on pages dyed purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good Reading | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Slipper. Betty rejoined her guests at the Copacabana. There, the fun bubbled over. Young Talbot whipped off a calfskin loafer, poured champagne in it for Betty to drink. Flashbulbs popped. Betty roared with glee. But Mr. Phyfe was distressed beyond words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Manhattan Hoedown | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...last week, as Lew Douglas flew back to No. I Grosvenor Square from consultations in Washington, he was the most important diplomat of the most powerful nation in the world. In his fat calfskin briefcase he carried the skeleton of the most ambitious economic foreign policy in history: the reconstruction of Western Europe. In 1947, U.S. diplomacy was big business, as big as the enormous wealth and prestige of the richest and most powerful nation on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Manager Abroad | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Gold Standard. In Chicago, an anonymous cinemagnate laid down $200 in a shoe store, walked out in a pair of calfskin shoes with a gold slug in each heel, gold eyelets, gold-tipped laces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...office of every U.S. general in SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) in Britain last week went a neat, sealed package from Washington. Inside each package was an elegant calfskin belt with pistol holster and a big shiny buckle embossed with the U.S. seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Brass Knuckles | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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