Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approached, the doors were swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...
...tall soldiers put on their leather helmets, marched off. But when they arrived at the front, the war was over: Prussia...
...identity of the hero of this hell-for-leather ballad stumped the Information Please experts a few Tuesdays back, but hundreds of thousands of radio fans, young and old, could instantly have whooped out his name - The Lone Ranger! Hi-Yo, Silver...
Most diplomas nowadays are in book form, sometimes with leather covers. Price range: 5? for an elementary school certificate, 25? for a high-school diploma, $1.50 for a college "sheepskin" (often paper), up to $10 for a de luxe doctor's or honorary degree...
...announcer's patent-leather voice was gliding over the air-waves. He spoke in a voice that was hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem...