Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoner of war, and he carries his broken neck in a leather brace because a Jap soldier hit him with a rifle butt. But Alfred C. Oliver is also a chaplain. Last week, speaking at a Cincinnati bond drive, Colonel Oliver said of the Japs: "These inhuman men starve you to death and work you to death and beat you unmercifully while they are doing...
Last week, a retrospective show of "Artists of the Philadelphia Press" opened in Philadelphia's Museum of Art. None of the few examples of war drawings had the static power of Winslow Homer's famed Civil War coverage for Harper's Weekly, nor the hell-for-leather zip of Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers...
...daily diet as well as the industrial prosperity of almost all of Europe may depend on the recommendations contained in Elliott's report. The fate of UNRRA of our financial policy to Britain, and of our industrial rehabilitation or demobilization of Germany may all lie between its leather covers...
Only once in his life had Sergeant Third Class Liu Yun ever worn leather shoes. That was as a Szechwan peasant boy in the year of the bountiful crops. His father had made enough money that season to buy him a pair of shiny black shoes. Liu could still remember how smooth and bright they felt on his stubble-tough soles...
...barracks last week Liu, the peasant's son, came upon the trunk of a captured Japanese. In it he found a pair of hobnailed shoes. They were worn and rough, but they were leather. Carefully Liu drew them on his feet. To his bare ankles they felt smooth and cool as silk. Liu wriggled his toes, walked a few steps, and grinned. This was no dream...