Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the President of the Chamber jangled his big brass dinner bell for order, Aristide Briand climbed into the rostrum to reply. Scarcely glancing at the red leather portfolio of notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire career as Foreign Minister, he claimed full support for all his acts from the two most potent French politicians, Raymond Poincaré and Andre Tardieu. He ended with a burst of brilliant Briandism...
...night shifts sorted and stapled the mail. Within a few days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune to the deluge was E. I. duPont deNemours & Co., maker of cellophane. So many people wrote for a description of cellophane that...
...Ingenious Franklin built a stepladder into his leather library chair, whereby he could reach his highest book shelves. Another precious chair of the Society is the Windsor chair to which Thomas Jefferson fitted a writing board and in which he drafted the Declaration of Independence...
This understandable lassitude on the part of our elders has thrown the Vagabond out of work and he has been forced to meander about the streets in search of an occupation. All yesterday afternoon he wasted leather on the gritty paving stones in an attempt to keep the fire of life flaming high. He toyed with the idea of seeing the Red Sox, but then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener...
...France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Most of the raw material was wild range horses raised on 15 Chappel-owned ranches, which total 1,500,000 acres, in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chappel products are several? puppy ration, kitty ration, kennel biscuit, pheasant meal, and leather specialties, besides food for grown dogs and foreigners? but P. M. Chappel has never attempted to sell horse meat as food for U. S. humans...