Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate...
...ring more than 300,000 times. He always wears gloves, he says, to avoid getting hemp splinters in his hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower and toll the bell at close quarters. Most of the time he is on duty as janitor of Matthews Hall. Asked if he had no compassion for the Freshmen...
...years, faces have come and gone, but the club itself has remained much the same: its air of worn brown leather, almost unused elevator, ancient chandeliers, cluttered rooms, classic busts and beery mugs, walls crowded with faded photographs and playbills-an "old uncle of a house," as Booth Tarkington described it. Still kept just as he left it- except that the bedsheets are said to be changed occasionally-is the room where Booth lived & died. In tall wall-safes lie carefully preserved costumes and relics of Booth and other actors...
...Hollywood, where-contrary to general belief-night clubs rarely flourish, famed Earl Carroll last week opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast, equipped with almost an acre of floor space, patent-leather ceiling, two concentric revolving stages...
...traders. When the State Department first announced its intention of negotiating the British and Canadian pacts last November, buyers began to order from hand to mouth, waiting to see what would happen. With the fog lifted last week, U. S. manufacturers of office equipment, electrical appliances, tractors, oil pumps, leather goods, silk hosiery charted plans to benefit by the most favorable concessions in the pacts. Automobile manufacturers, although disappointed at not getting duty concessions, thought that gains for U. S. farmers might mean an improved domestic market for motors...