Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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January's last winds blew the fury of Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan around the leonine head of fat old Rev. Edward L. Brooks last week. He put on a leather "aviator's'' cap and a heavy ulster and uprighteously faced, besides the elements, the bitter accusations of his neighbors at small Beulah, Mich. Those neighbors never did approve the resort for unmarried mothers and baby bastards which this retired Congregational clergyman operated at Beulah. They suspected that Brooks let poor babies die or even had them killed, that he buried them in the dune sand...
Wildly exciting to Japanese is each fresh leap by their industry in its hop-skip-&-skid race to overtake the West. Last week a full page advertisement in the latest copy of Japan Trade shrieked: DOUBLE STAR Long-Waited-For Thing Par Excellence ADVENT OF PATENT-LEATHER SHOES!!! The unsurpassed shoes newly born! ASAHI RUBBER WORKS...
...reconciled. Upon the assurance of Mayo Clinicians many an x-ray man has ceased to wear heavy lead-filled rubber gloves and aprons as a positive shield against x-rays which, while harmless to the patient, might seriously injure the examiner. Mayo Clinicians assured the profession that ordinary leather gloves and plain clothing gave the x-ray technician all the protection he needed. Recently, however, Mayo radiologists tested their data, found themselves wrong and frankly recanted in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Not to leather gloves and plain clothing went credit for the fact that Mayo Clinicians had suffered...
...preserve the seats of their trousers as long as possible, French bureaucrats sit on round pieces of leather, are known derisively as les ronds-de-cuir. Cozily last week they closed the books on the French Budget of 1916, obtained the Senate's approval for their final audit which showed a deficit of 22 billion (old style) francs or 110 billion present-day gold francs. When a Senator protested at the ronds-de-cuir delay, Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin hotly assured him that a mighty reform is under way which will permit all French budgets to be closed...
...private chambers of a New York Supreme Court justice in Manhattan one day last month a thin, nervous little girl of 10 sat swinging her spindly legs from a fat leather swivel chair. She was Gloria Vanderbilt, scion of one of the great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy...