Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad honored their three coaches and their captain with gifts. Chief Boston received a leather travelling, bag, while backfield coach Clee O'Donnell, '46 varsity captain, line coach Eddle Davis, tackle on the '46 varsity team, and '47 J.V. captain Ozzie Keiver received silver eigarette lighters...
...Washington, Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug's home was burglarized while he was exploring the nation's interior. Gone: one leather jacket, two watches, three gold studs (with diamonds), a few gold trinkets, one $20 gold piece, and four golden cases of Scotch...
...more races in 1947 than anyone else. At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off. He wears tailor-made leather jackets with tassels, talks out of the side of his thin-lipped mouth, sports a $2,000 diamond ring on one hand. Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down...
Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey...
...London last week the big cream-&-gold salon of Lancaster House had been tidied up. The ornate wall mirrors, the candelabra and the red leather chairs were dusted and in place. The Big Four Foreign Ministers were ready for another try at writing the German and Austrian peace treaties...