Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week when President Eisenhower entered the Cabinet Room to open the conferences with congressional leaders on his programs for 1958. The 31 conferees got to their feet and gave him a round of applause. After taking his place in his big, straight-backed, black leather Cabinet chair, he explained that he felt well, but was conscious of speaking more slowly after his stroke (no one in the room could detect it) and would therefore talk less than usual. During the rest of the sessions he frequently came and went, leaving Vice President Nixon to preside while...
EILEEN RODGERS is a pretty, 24-year-old song belter-whose belting is the wide, black-leather kind worn by unruly teenagers-signed up a couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice...
Wallace stated that he saw the prowler climb up to the third floor, pause, and hurry down when he found the door locked. He described him as being about 18 years old, with a leather jacket and an Elvis Presley hair...
...color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard to make a bold structural pattern that is now his signature and trademark...
...regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became so enraged at a violinist that he grabbed the man's violin and smashed it over his head. Nightly, at the city's cafes, he scolded waiters, flirted with local beauties and pounded...