Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major bit of fortune (half good, half mis-) is his acquaintance with the millionaire. The two meet when the Tramp prevents the unhappy drunk from drowning himself. The grateful man pledges his eternal friendship. After putting on the patent leather shoes he had carefully removed before attempting suicide, the millionaire takes the Tramp out on a glorious so used night on the town. But when the sober light of morning comes, the suicidal friend returns to his calm, business-as-usual self. He throws out his little friend whom he does not even remember. But at strategic moments the millionaire...
...about to see to be involved in this monetary domain." Anyone who thought that monetary affairs are supposed to dominate an annual meeting soon found out differently. Land had decided to use this meeting to stage the long-awaited debut of his new, pocket-sized camera. Unfolding a leather-covered box to form a vaguely triangular Polaroid camera. Land focused on his oversized meerschaum pipe and pushed the shutter button five times in quick succession. About a second after each touch, a 3-in. by 3-in. blank plastic square shot out. Slowly and almost magically, like invisible ink being...
Midnight Oil begins with the story of how he became a writer without benefit of higher education, literary mentors or even good advice. Instinct made the 20-year-old Pritchett leave the leather trade in London and set off for Paris in 1921. He saw his first pepper mill, ate his first omelet, became an accent snob and-so far as he could afford a fop. In a more gradual way, "the orderliness of the trees, the gravely spaced avenues, rearranged my mind...
...effect of illness was to coarsen his personality by letting its wilder elements escape," Ferris notes. Messages to his editors grew wilder. He traveled incessantly: Australia, Japan, India, back to France. There Northcliffe discovered that an employee, summoned over from London, did not have a suitable silver-fitted crocodile-leather suitcase. He promptly was given ? 150 to go back to London...
...that fit over the car's nose to ward off bugs and tar. "We sell them by the ton," says a salesman. And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars. Jack Cassidy recently picked up an air horn for his Rolls, Bill Holden a bullhorn for his Continental, Paul Newman some gloves to help him handle his VW, Robert Wagner a wood shift knob for his Mercedes, James Garner some goggles for driving...