Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praises to the Press. Even California's Republican Johnson had a friendly greeting for him. The McAdoo grin permeated the lobby. "Hello . . . hello . . . hello . . . hello," he cackled to one & all. Suddenly his narrow eye fell upon Senator Shortridge, his probable opponent in November, sitting quietly in a big black leather chair...
With souvenir green leather folders stuffed with postage stamps in their pockets, the delegates rushed off to catch trains and boats. Not until two days later was the Press told what Messrs. Bennett, Baldwin, Bruce et al., and King George, and the people of Argentina, Denmark, Russia and the U. S. had got out of the conference...
Quos: 1) preference to 220 British commodities (including textiles, iron & steel, chemicals, leather) through free entry, lower preferential rates or increased tariffs on foreign commodities; 2) abolition of surcharges on British goods "as soon as the finances of Canada will allow"; 3) a promise not to increase duties on any British goods without recommendation by its Tariff Board, with Britain granted audience before the board...
...anticipation of their coming the Glasgow Sunday Mail treated its readers to an intimate, not particularly respectful description of the royal train. Said the Mail: "Not even Hollywood stars or Argentine millionaires own more luxurious railroad saloons. The King's smoking compartment [is fitted] with apple green leather and fiddleback mahogany, while the Queen's boudoir saloon has paler green silk upholstery and Jacobean oak furniture. Her sleeping compartment is decorated in blue and there is a pink marble bathroom adjoining." ¶ Not to be outdone by the railroads, Scottish bus companies began uniforming their conductors in kilts...
...memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa 1889) but of its 200,000 small-town citizens, its volunteer fire brigade, its lawless Five Points where "leather-hats" (police) never dared venture, its daring real-estate ventures into the open farming country of East 52nd Street. Author Komroff lugs in few historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were inspired...