Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bucket compared to the yearly earnings, but Cocoris feels leery about making too many alterations. The interior of Jake Wirth's next door has hardly been changed since the turn of the century, nor has anyone ever thought seriously of ripping off the Gay Nineties brass button and black leather effects at Locke Ober's several blocks away. Some of the waiters, who have themselves been part of the scenery for twenty years or more, are disappointed that he is not planning to take out the old-fashioned, unupholstered, narrow booths. But John Cocoris, immaculate, white-haired, and clear-eyed...
...snug atmosphere of Chiang Kaishek's sitting room-among the potted plants, old scrolls, Sung urns and leather chairs-the 20-year single-party monopoly of the Kuomintang (National People's Party) was, nominally, coming to an end. The Generalissimo ran his eye over the hand-charactered document. "Hao hao!" he exclaimed, "let us sign and have this copy as a souvenir." Across the agreement for a coalition government, the spokesman for the Young China Party, the Democratic Socialists, and the nonparty independents added their brushstroke signatures to Chiang's own Kuomintang endorsement...
Ordinarily the turf at Soldiers Field is ploughed by leather-cleated soccer players for only a few months in the fall, but this vernal season finds the Crimson booters getting in some overtime kicking...
...industry, 1946 had been the Year of Fat. Earnings were up 37% over 1945. Earnings in meat, lumber, cotton goods, shoes and leather goods were sometimes fabulous, while prices in those products soared almost out of sight...
...running out, and after a few of the lucky first comers have had a chance to see their prizes. At the end of the show after more blue lights. Russian dancing bears, and suggestive hip wiggles, there file out into the dismal Boston streets many proud possessors of genuine leather wallets (empty), any one of which will go right up in flames if a match...