Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics...
Part of the Nicaraguan Press again hailed leather-necked, two-fisted U. S. Marines as "incorruptible" last week, as they again supervised a Nicaraguan presidential election, their second...
...excited sentences. A roaring mob in a smoky arena stands up on its feet howling again and again. The grizzly farmer puffs faster on his pipe, his wife's knitting becomes jerky and distracted as they loan nearer their radio. A group of elderly gentlemen silently draw up their leather chairs...
...Secretary of the Treasury Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
...hats and no-hats bobbed enthusiastically through the hideous foyer of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre in grimy 14th Street one evening last week. Men in leather coats from Greenwich Village and tailcoats from Murray Hill, women in city silks and country tweeds were there to celebrate the return of Actress-Producer Eva Le Gallienne from her sabbatical year and the reopening of her famed dramatic workshop, closed all last year. Anything the Repertory company might have put on for its début would have excited cheers from its devoted following. The audience was still howling gratefully long...