Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returning profits at the rate of $2,277,000 per year. 'Legger Wexler bought $10 shirts, rode in limousines, kept an elaborate apartment with three master bedrooms, a library, a living room, a dining room, an American walnut bar, a stained-glass window. He spent $4,200 for leather-bound volumes of Scott. Dickens, Thackeray. Once he paid for a set of Lincoln and Jefferson to give to "a politician." Last April, Plug-uglies Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went on about his business of being New York...
...While President Roosevelt was still in Washington, earlier in the week, newshawks spotted little William Woodin scurrying out of the White House carrying a leather case under his arm. "What have you got there?" they asked. "Medallions of the President," said the nominal Secretary of the Treasury, "and they are going right back to the Philadelphia Mint to be made over. The President doesn't like them. They make him too young and show him wearing an Army hair-cut." Next day the President made over his Treasury Department command...
Alfred Dunhill was not always pipemaker to the House of Windsor. Originally he satisfied a penchant for modest yachting and the blending of fine tobaccos from a fashionable harness and leather-goods business. He bought the third automobile ever imported into Britain, built up a private collection of pipes second only to that in the British Museum. After the turn of the century when the harness business dwindled, his shop became "Dunhill Motorities." selling linen dusters, leather breeches, goggles, veils and gauntlets to motor-minded lords & ladies. In 1905, he sold out his Dunhill Motorities with its slogan of "Everything...
...cabbage. The result was a Sunday paper of one hundred and forty six pages, sixty of which carried nothing but classified advertisements. And when the Post hired tight rope walkers to attract Denver to its office, and shunted fifty old automobiles down a mountain while barkers gave their leather lungs to Bonfils' glory, victory was assured...
...similar fate caught Coach Charlie Whiteside unawares the other day at the Newell Boat House. We were not witness to the scene, but someone seems to have walked off with Mr. Whiteside's great leather coat, while the latter was getting dressed. The coach, accustomed to cold Charles River breezes, knew that only speed would stop the thief. That is why fortunate motorists had the pleasure of seeing Harvard's crew coach running on the road in front of the boat house...