Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travels, Vines carries his rackets and two of his flannel caps in a new leather case. More extraordinary even than his caps?which are already creating a vogue like the Helen Wills eyeshade? are what Vines has inside his size 10 tennis shoes?a pair of arch preservers. His rackets?he uses 35 a year?are 13½ oz. with a 4? in. handle. For diversion, he likes to polish or scuttle about in his new Ford coupe. His best friend is one Carey MacPherson, who plays mediocre tennis, owns part of a Pasadena gas station. He is engaged to marry...
Munich he found medieval, gloomy, in spite of its beer. But at Egern on the Tegernsee in the Bavarian Oberland he had a cheerful stopover. Before leaving Munich he bought a Bavarian outfit? leather breeches, laced at the knees, white stockings, green suspenders embroidered with a stag and edelweiss, a Jager hat with a tuft of chamois hair. Stealthily accoutring himself in his hotel room Author Hergesheimer admired himself before his mirror for some time, then changed to dinner clothes, went to the bar and drank two double Martinis. He would have drunk a third but the barkeep demurred...
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts wanted a picture of former Governor Frank Gilman Allen to hang in the Boston State House, Governor Allen chose Manhattan Artist Henry Louis Wolff. Frank Gilman Allen is a big-handed leather tycoon who "would rather pick blueberries than do anything else" and can outpick his chauffeur ten quarts to six. Artist Wolff painted a portrait of a benignly smiling man with his big hands casually in his trousers pockets. Subject Allen was pleased. But last week in Boston the State...
...Resin. Since Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite from carbolic acid & formaldehyde and demonstrated how useful and profitable such artificial resins may be, a new division of plastics has developed in chemistry. New product is "glyptal," a flexible material which /. G. E. Wright declared is better than rubber or leather for printing machine rollers. It can be used for lithographic rolls and blankets, oil-proof gaskets, floor coverings, special sheetings for the balloonets of dirigibles, gasoline and oil hose, motor-mountings, tooth brushes...
...Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...