Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make his budget speech, cast a quick glance up at the packed public galleries...
...letter about Doyle and Lodge to the effect that every TIME reader should know that Doyle is dead and Lodge alive (TIME, Jan. 18). Not only are many of your readers acquainted with this fact but many of them also know that Doyle and not Poe wrote The Leather Funnel (TIME, Jan. 25, footnote on p. 13). In fact it was Doyle's favorite among his own short stories...
Punctured Napoleon? Even German Reds are prudent. Last month, in the first presidential election (won by nobody since nobody obtained an absolute majority), 4,982,939 Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...
...hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder?the immemorial smell of Circus...
...flushed old men and 67 excited old women waited in the transepts of Westminster Abbey last week. The organ groaned magnificently. Down the aisle stalked a scarlet-&-gold Yeoman of the Guard bearing on his head a solid gold platter piled high with purses of scarlet and white leather. Behind the Yeoman walked King George, Queen Mary and the King's Almoner, the Very Rev. J. Armitage Robinson whose other duties include the Deanship of Wells Cathedral...