Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve jewel Hamilton wrist-watch, a genuine leather wallet containing a ten dollar bill, and a genuine leather wallet without the ten dollar bill. Now, we have only a limited number of these boxes, so it will have to be first come first served. Who's gonna be first? Whaddya...
Officials yesterday placed mythical crowns on the heads of six other novice leather-wielders. The parade started at 4:30 o'clock when Austin Lyne of Chestnut Hill rallied in the third round to take a decision from Adams House's 145-pound Jerome Franklin, and Lyne's brother, Eugene, cooly and skillfully outboxed stocky Jim Hornig in the decisive third of the 175-pound final to cop the championship...
Among the permanent features of the Bunny Ratch (an original cartoon by Walt Disney illustrating the nickname shares the place of honor in the dining hall with the portrait of a Saltonstall) is the capacious and well-stocked library, equipped with deep leather furniture that is conductive to relaxation if not to concentration...
...caves or in skyscrapers, reached back 96 years for support from The House of the Seven Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built...
...newspapers had a proprietary interest in the slugging. The contestants had been chosen in local contests sponsored by the papers. Though the fighters usually showed more spunk than skill, Golden Gloves had produced Joe Louis. The photographers worked as hard on their bosses' pet sport promotion as the leather-pushers. Their pictures were the sport shots of the week (see cuts...