Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philosophy. His face was grim and set. He spoke in a week of historic victories for Communism in Asia (see FOREIGN NEWS). He had chosen his Inauguration Day to give the U.S.-and the world-a major restatement of U.S. foreign policy. Reading with careful emphasis from his brown leather loose-leaf notebook, his breath hanging frosty in the winter air, the President made it clear that there would be no softening of the U.S. attitude toward Communist aggression...
...interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
...Evansville sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...
Later, Franz Joseph admitted that Rudolph had committed suicide. But he continued to hush up all evidence of the circumstances. He put what he said were the documents relating to the case in a large leather bag, which was solemnly handed on, unopened, from one Prime Minister to the next, until 1917. When at last the bag was opened a bundle of old newspapers fell...
Show business has given him a theatrical sense. Pie maintains the "little man" legend by wearing army pants and brown leather flyer's jacket, on the back of which is a faded pin-up girl portrait...