Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size. The landscaping was finished only 24 hours before Western Germany's new government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage back...
Couturier Jacques Fath, in Dallas to accept a fashion prize from the Neiman-Marcus store, got all dressed up in native costume (Western-style plaid shirt by Jacques Fath, glass-studded white leather belt by Neiman-Marcus, blue denim britches by Sears, Roebuck). Concluding that the U.S. square dance is "wonderful, wonderful," he announced that Paris would hear of the sport just as soon as he got home...
Lounging in Luxury. Like real cowboys, who take to such luxuries as $125 hand-embroidered gabardine shirts, moppets can also indulge in embroidered shirts for $15, embossed holsters at $15, fringed and decorated leather chaps at $12, and even cowboy pajamas for $2.98. To have a well-dressed cowboy in the home, parents can plunk out as much as $83.40 for a single outfit. For another $42.50, they can buy a gabardine shirt, trousers and felt hat for a cowgirl. Even at those prices, retailers have found little buyers' resistance...
...first paragraph of "The Old Oaken Barrel" [about two Kentucky Senators who tasted a leather-headed tack in a barrel of bourbon-TIME, July 25] is slightly reminiscent of an anecdote used about 400 years ago in Don Quixote. Two of Sancho Panza's cousins, renowned for sensitive taste buds, were enjoying a barrel of wine. Although both pronounced the liquor excellent, one cousin noticed a slight taste of leather, while the other objected to a taste of iron. The other imbibers, less discerning than Sancho's kinsmen, ridiculed the two. On emptying the cask, however, the cousins...
...nights on a day coach back to Pasadena. There he borrowed $250 from his father, rented space above a drugstore, hired a $20-a-week seamstress, and began turning out cheap ($1), soft-soled rehearsal shoes for the theater trade. Working a 16-hour daily grind, Joyce cut the leather soles at night; by day, while his seamstress sewed on the uppers, Joyce wore out his own shoes trying to sell the sandals...