Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coat collar turned up, on only one side of the town streets. They may not carry an umbrella rolled up. The 29 leaders of the schools, the "Pops," however, are permitted proudly to exhibit the insignia of their position at all times: a boutonniere, a tightly rolled umbrella, patent leather shoes, a gaily colored waistcoat, and topper affixed with blobs of colored sealing...
Norwegian industries at a standstill last week were: shipyards, textiles, leather, tobacco, pulp, paper, rubber, soap, shoes, electro-chemicals, chocolate, clothing, sawmills, building trades, electrical and printing industries...
Aristide Briand once said that the people never want war. Nor do they, save when their imagination is stirred by things like flags, brass bands, leather-larnyxed five-minute men, and armaments. In maneuvering over New York, over Boston, over Springfield and all the larger cities of populous New England, the War Department is undoubtedly giving its pilots much training in group flying. It is a question, however, whether this obvious benefit is sufficient to offset the subtle internal poisons produced by the sky-wide and handsome inctics of the air armada. We are not grateful to the government...
...Bunyan.* Contrary to downtown Manhattan legend, President McInnerney does not sit at his desk munching Kraft-Phenix cheese all day and quaffing Sheffield milk. The quaffing and munching at directors' meetings are only a stunt. Mr. McInnerney's office is a luxurious, paneled room containing much Florentine leather. Next to his interest in music (one of Mrs. McInnerney's closest friends is Soprano Queena Mario), Mr. McInnerney's favorite indulgence is the collection of Florentine furniture. His Fifth Avenue apartment and his Winnetka, Ill., summer home are filled with Florentine pieces gathered on his annual trips...
While the Chatterton-Lukas combination is riding on busses and getting wet, his lordship decides to elope with the sister-in-law, and we see him going hell-for-leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful...