Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped into a White House limousine with Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret, Harry Truman was a cool and confident man. He boarded his special train for Philadelphia, changed to a white linen suit and two-toned shoes, then opened a black leather folder and went over his speech...
...does not hobnob with his neighbors, but they frequently see him toiling up the hill in leather-thonged sandals, slacks and sports shirt, his arms full of groceries. With his wife Vera, he worships regularly at the Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Los Angeles. He seldom goes to parties, because, says Sapiro, "he meets so many people who think they know all about music-and particularly his music...
After he left Princeton in 1917, Elliott Springs trained as a pursuit pilot, became the nations No. 3 ace in World War I by downing eleven enemy planes. Back home, he continued as a hell-for-leather test pilot and barnstormer until his plane caught fire and crashed in the first U.S. cross-country race. The damage prompted Springs to start a much duller career in the family's mills...
...ancestry, there was plenty of force, vitality, toughness, love of action. His mother was descended from a doughty line of French Huguenots; one of them was a rifle-shooting chaplain with George Washington's army. Another was a hell-for-leather cavalryman in the Civil...
Dupré spun and thundered six preludes and fugues of Bach-a heavy dose even for the hardiest. But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the pedals. Said one watcher: "The guy should have been a ballet dancer...