Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Socialist Review, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of the London Spectator; and Esther Murphy Strachey, daughter of the late Patrick Francis Murphy, head of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), famed after-dinner speaker; in London...
...collar, his cupid mouth pursed in an easy little smile, sitting informally on the edge of his desk, swinging his legs. Piped a pert newshawk: "Mr. Secretary, you're in a pretty hot spot, aren't you?" The brand-new Secretary reached down to his big black leather chair, rubbed his hand slowly over its seat and softly replied: "No, it isn't hot. really...
Before 301 Democratic members of the 73rd Congress marched into the House chamber, bolted the doors and settled down on the black leather seats for a party caucus, there were three outstanding candidates for the Speakership vacated by John Nance Garner. Big, white-mopped Representative Rainey, 72, considered himself "in line" for the job because he had been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie...
Oxford's pacifism was scarcely more lamentable to many a proud Old Oxonian than a fact reported by The Spectator: "Jackets with cuffs and elbows strengthened with leather to prolong life are very common in the streets...
...spectators and, on the other side, the flags 100 yd. apart marking your course. They go by like pickets in a fence. You feel the accelerator trembling against your foot because, although the sand looks smooth, there are ridges in it. Your head is pushed back against a leather cushion. You notice that the few seconds it takes to cover a mile pass very slowly...