Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chelsea figurines, old Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed...
...father for spending his time at the race track. Before the race, Kurtsinger was asked whether he wanted to have Man o' War's old saddle on War Admiral. Said he: "That saddle must be nearly 20* years old and I don't want any leather breaking in the Derby. Beside, I've got my own lucky saddle that brought Twenty Grand home." Jockey Kurtsinger's first Derby victory on Twenty Grand in 1931 set a track record of 2:01 4/5. Last week's running, in 2 :03 1/5, was, except for that...
...single-track mind. In 1886, when Leo Frobenius was a small Berliner of 13, he had made up his mind he was going to be an anthropologist. At 15 he had become such an expert on the American Indian that he amused himself compiling technical errors in the Leather Stocking Tales. He wrote a dissertation on the ethnographic significance of Marco Polo's travels. Before he was 20 he had had to work as a farmer and clerk, but by the time he came of age he had hammered his way onto the staff of the Bremen Museum...
...political career, rake-thin, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, slated to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, stepped sedately up to the red dispatch box in the centre of the floor, fished a sheaf of papers from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic leather brief case, began to talk in his precise dry rasp...
...laboratory, experiments have been carried on with these and scores of other chemicals. What they hope to find eventually is a moth-killer which will impregnate a fabric like dye, will not be removed by washing or dry-cleaning. Moths eat almost any animal tissue-wool, silk, feathers, even leather and deer antlers. They will not, however, eat wool if it is completely sterile. Presumably impurities in the air and traces of perspiration provide spice enough under ordinary conditions...