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...Norwegian Storting (Parliament). But it was when Luthuli rose in the great hall of Oslo University to make his acceptance speech, and at a dinner the next evening, that he lifted the occasion far above mere warmth or politics. Dressed in his tribal costume-flowing blue-and-black robe, leopardskin cap with monkey tails, a necklace of leopard's teeth-Luthuli spoke for all that is best in black Africa, showing an intellectual's perspective, the devoutness of a mission-educated Christian, and the faith in nonviolence that has always marked his career...
...emergency transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking and do not want to bother with clay pigeons; A. Sulka & Co. is selling men's handmade leopardskin gloves lined with beaver ($125). His and Her vicuna lounging robes ($1,100 a set), and an ebony walking stick topped with a solid gold handle ($550). Rocking chairs, popularized by the President, are moving well. For the bewildered male, Cleveland's Halle Bros. provides a Pandora's Box of women...
Diana's success has brought her a lavish villa on the Thames (private cinema room with leopardskin chairs, floodlit tennis court, aviary), a powder blue Cadillac ("Blue is a wonderful color for blondes; even our lawn mower is blue"), a 50-ft. launch (for moonlight glides up the river), and a monoplane for longer trips...
...when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of films about an ape man named Tarzan, a character based loosely on the hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books. The movie series, 28 in all, wore out ten Tarzans-among them Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris and Lex Barker-but never the plot. Such humdingers as Tarzan and the Mermaids and Tarzan's Magic Fountain found their way to the screens of thousands...
...offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work I got to do in the world? I really think I'm doing the cleanest work of any man livin' today...