Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first period, Harvard went into a huddle and was called to attention by W. J. Leather, vice-captain and 200-lb. forward of the Cambridge fifteen. Huddles are not allowed in rugby. Aside from this foolish faux pas, the Harvard rugby team in New York last week gave a much better account of itself than Cambridge would have been likely to do at U. S. football. When the first 40-min period ended, the score was only 26-to-10 for Cambridge...
...crowd of 4,500 saw the first game played on a muddy field which soon made the white shorts and light-blue-&-white Cambridge jerseys almost indistinguishable from Harvard's red shorts and jerseys. Cambridge stars included Leather, whose father was a British International (equivalent to U. S. All-America) in 1907 ; K. C. Fyfe, a good dropkicker, who played wing three-quarter against Oxford last year and the year before, won his Blue and International in his freshman year at Caius College; J. E. Bowcott, 145-Ib. scrum-half, smallest man on the team, whose spectacular lateral passing...
Several hours later Prisoner Insull, having been fingerprinted and having received back his watch and his $21 in cash from the clerk of the county jail, was set free. He walked out carrying a black suitcase of imitation leather and drove off with his son-in-law, Major William Rafferty...
Economics where they found the Herr Reichsminister Kurt Schmitt in the correct costume for a Nazi economist : the black tunic and tight leather belt of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. "The main purpose of this reconstruction." said Minister Schmitt, "is to coordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry...
...while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked in more publicity than they had had in months. Promptly at 10:30, bareheaded and wearing a grey suit without a vest, Col. Lindbergh strode in amid a thunder of applause. He shook hands with Chairman McKellar, sat down stiffly in a red leather chair, flipped through a copy of the bill, drummed his fingers on the table, smiled. Brisk and businesslike, the flyer identified himself as technical adviser to Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways, said he received a combined salary of $16,000 per year. Hunched forward in' his chair...