Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst hierarchy has a very clear notion of what Young Bill thinks about-except that it seems to match his father's thinking pretty well. (But the Old Man, at Bill's age, was a hell-for-leather radical, campaigning for cheap money, public power and Democrats...
...footman flings open the portals of my palace in that New Jerusalem for me; another unrolls a red path of velvet to the enormous motor which floats me through the city traffic-I leaning back like Ed ward VII, or like God, on leather cushions, smoking a big cigar...
Next day Winston Churchill came back to a whirling storm of young Tory complaints. At a meeting of the backbenchers, Churchill slumped in a red leather armchair, listened sourly for 90 minutes to their pent-up criticisms. In schoolmasterly fashion Churchill reminded the younger men that they would better appreciate Parliament tactics when they had a few more years behind them...
...incentive pay plan, warned them they had better be good or get out. Result: B & B salesmen boosted their average salaries to about $7,000 a year. In the last four years, despite paper shortages, B & B, which also makes cigaret lighters, playing cards and leather novelties, has quadrupled its gross to $24,873,000 this year. Still President Ward is not ready to rest...
...bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...