Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows the 'name of Fifi Vollard's cat, a testy 12-year-old alley torn whose great ambition is to get into the room where the Cézannes are kept. Frustrated in this he generally dashes for the dining room and claws angry gashes in the leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone in a silent house...
Upon us has been showered an avalanche of letters from readers of TIME, asking for information about the new Stay-Rite tie of leather letters from Bogalusa, La., to Bangor, Me . . from doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief...
...industrial agreements affecting the work and wages of 11,000,000 people, NRA last week completed its four-month shakedown cruise. Result of the shakedown was a re-organization of NRA into five permanent branches: Extractive Industries (including motors and shipping); Construction & Machinery (including lumber and metal products); Chemicals, Leather & Other Manufactures; Trades. Services, Textiles & Clothing. Each now has its own administrator, who acts as a deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department of Commerce. Anyone who has a complaint...
Nearly, but not quite, for besides being the biggest of all codes in point of persons affected, it involved consequences even more far-reaching, politically as well as economically, than the codes for basic coal, cotton, oil, steel, motors, lumber, leather, wool. It touched 1,000,000 stores, 5,000,000 employes and $30,000,000,000 of yearly trade by each & every U. S. citizen who can afford to buy so much as a pin. Upon it depended the Cost of Living...
...swankest clubs. Lily soon was as ardent a vamp as ever answered a midnight alarm or kept his rubber boots at the head of the bed. She was married about this time to Howard Coit (no relation to Cleveland's or Buffalo's Coits), then the leather-lunged Caller of the old Mining Exchange, but matrimony could not keep Lily out of the fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played poker with the boys. She signed all her letters "Lily Hitchcock Coit-5." "L. H. C.-5" was embroidered on her chemises, and wherever...