Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Siqueiros was a hell-for-leather Communist of the old-fashioned sort, and could never keep his eagle beak out of trouble: jail was always interrupting his painting. He is still a devoted party liner, though the Communists expelled him in 1930 for visiting his girl friend when he was under orders to hide out. They thought that the girl friend was being watched by the police. The police were on his trail anyway, replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when...
...book's central character is an unhappily married socialite who lives in a world of blue leather engagement books, French beds, alabaster lamps and gold pillboxes. But she finds it a sterile life, and when a brigadier general comes along she follows him back to his garlicky East Side origins. In an atmosphere of cracked oilcloth, leaky sinks and potato pancakes, she discovers the simplicity and goodness that is missing in her own world...
Something well worth staying away from is the annual Wet Down ceremony in the spring. The senior class forms a double column across the commons and all the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and campus wheels in that order run the gauntlet of flailing leather belts. As each bruised figure reaches the end of the line, he joins in to wreak vengeance on those behind. "Thus do freshmen become sophomores," writes the Daily Dartmouth...
...going to cost Canadians more not only to eat, but to dress and to build. Ottawa stores predicted that rising leather prices would raise the price of shoes $2 to $4 a pair. A similar prediction in Winnipeg set off a buying spree. In some Vancouver yards, lumber went up $5 to $8 per thousand feet, to complicate the problem of new housing...
...Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap...