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Word: leatherizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheer power of pantomime dominates the scenes in which he has almost nothing to say or do; 2) colored Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel, who comes from Kansas, had to be taught to speak thick Georgian, turns in the most finished acting job of the picture as Mammy, the sly, leather-lunged, devoted Emily Post of the O'Haras. And Vivien Leigh had not petted and pouted on the screen for five minutes before the fussy Atlanta audience was ready to underwrite Selznick's choice of the little-known English actress to be the Southern belle. Whether she spoke letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Looking as tough as saddle leather and about the same color from 20 years in the Moroccan sun and winds, the adjutant smiled, barked an order in Arabic and in less than a minute we were swinging off through the woods single file. Six riflemen were ahead and six behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Stretchable patent leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvels | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Leather-lunged Bobby Breen, 12, retired from work as a cinemasinger. Reason: his voice is changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Shoemaker Melville can afford to help the industry out. With his warehouses full of leather, the price increase should give him a nice inventory profit. Price boosts may work quite satisfactorily until they begin to set consumption back to the 1929 level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shoes Up | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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