Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ivar. like Aristide. was past thinking and past explaining. At 11 a.m. he had shuttered the blinds of his unostentatiously elegant flat at No. 5 Avenue Victor Emmanuel and lain down neatly on his bed. Then he had drawn aside his black coat and the leather locket with the gold coin that always rested on his breast like a superstitious token of his only god. and shot himself with a 9-mm. Browning pistol, neatly through the middle of his heart...
...home-town crowd that had begun by rooting for Harlem's hero began to cheer the spectacle of a champ going down. "Hit him in his pink Cadillac," screamed a ringsider. Fullmer rained leather just about every place else. In the seventh he clubbed Robinson toward the canvas and then body-pushed him through the ropes. Sugar Ray was up at the count of six. For a brief flurry in the ninth, the champ looked like the destroyer of old. Still. Fullmer just kept coming...
Throughout the building there is a preponderance of large, deep, leather armchairs...
...boasts none of these splendors, however, and its parietal rules are stricter. It is only open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Its second floor contains only a cocktail lounge and two relatively small dining rooms, and the chairs in the lounge are not the leather monsters found next door, but the familiarly hard Harvard chairs. But even these facilities represent a large concession, for until 15 years ago, the Ladies were overlooked...
Coming in stubby and fast, the baseman Gathers a grounder in fat green grass, Picks it stinging and clipped as wit Into the leather...