Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs," he discloses his complete and puerile ignorance of skilled custom cobbling. For a long time, handcrafted shoes and boots had soles and heels secured by hardwood pegs. This produced a beautiful, unsewn appearance, and the pegs wore down commensurately with the leather, avoiding the damage to elegant floors and the skidding on sidewalks caused by nails that wear more slowly than leather, and thus protrude...
...RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama owes its vitality to a major talent. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned) who also takes on the leading role as a hell-for-leather railroad engineer brought to a dead end by family problems...
...tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions with blue velvet and leather harness and silver nameplates drag in more kegs...
Modern technology is coming to the rescue. Already developed are aromatic compounds to spray on the outside of baked goods or canned foods, to mix in with the ethyl or the plastic leather, to knead into the finished cardigan. The new perfumes are called "industrial smells." Says Ernest Guenther, senior vice president at Manhattan's Fritzsche Bros., one of the leading smell manufacturers: "Twenty years ago, industrial odorants were only a small part of our perfuming business. However, they have increased...
Working with natural essences or synthetic replacements, industrial perfumers have also solved the problem of charcoal briquettes that don't smell like hickory and finished furs that don't smell like mink. Without help, shoes nowadays smell more like adhesives, rubber soles and dye than leather; many manufacturers have taken to deodorizing footwear, then spraying on a compound that smells the way shoes are supposed to smell...