Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paying the U. S. $90, each member of the Hoover Cabinet last week had his heavy black leather & mahogany chair taken out of the White House and crated for shipment to his home as a souvenir.* Into the spacious, many-windowed Cabinet room were trundled ten brand new chairs for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fill with his ten chief advisers. On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder...
...volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...
...magnificent abnegation (not, of course, in the material sense) of these Bostonians who have married Chicagoans, we think, nevertheless, that he should be informed. The McCormicks have had their reaper for a hundred years. Certain families extraordinarily well considered here-abouts have enjoyed the advantages of wool and shoe leather for a shorter time. Also, as any Chicagoan could have told this gentleman, the "Tribune" is a very, very vulgar paper indeed, although we suspect that some of his local journals rival it in this respect...
...wants on his hands during his first year in the White House. He and his Democratic associates have been cudgeling their brains to devise ways & means of heading off such an uprising before it reaches the blood-&-bullets stage. As one remedy for revolution Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, leather-lunged Democratic Senate leader, last week produced a 25-page bill to relieve mortgage-ridden farmers. If the revolutionaries could be bought off with cash, the conservative lawyer from Little Rock was ready to invest $1,500,000,000 for civil peace...
When a Frenchman's well-worn leather purse is threatened his thoughts turn forcibly to Justice, he begins to talk louder & louder, may end by erupting with other Frenchmen into unseemly acts. Last week 10,000 solid citizens from various parts of France, members of the National Federation of Taxpayers, met in Paris, clamored for Justice until suddenly, shouting "On to the Chamber!", they started a rush for the Chamber of Deputies, grappled with Paris police, had to be beaten back by ornate cavalry of the Garde Républicaine...