Word: pigskins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
Between his summer home on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., and his brokerage offices in Manhattan, Richard F. Hoyt commutes at 100 miles an hour. He uses a Loening amphibian biplane, sits lazily in a cabin finished in dark brown broadcloth and saddle leather, with built-in lockers containing pigskin picnic cases. Pilot Robert E. Ellis occupies a forward cockpit, exposed to the breezes. But occasionally Broker Hoyt wishes to pilot himself. When this happens he pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts...
...Yale. "Now, you must do something big for Yale," says the daughter of a professor to an undergraduate who had come all the way from Argentine. And what does the Argentine? He tucks the pigskin under his dislocated shoulder and runs 90 yards for the winning touchdown in the last quarter. It is the worst rah-rah film on record. Rod La Roque as the Argentine is obnoxious. Jeanette Loff as the professor's daughter is a pretty discovery...
...revival of printing and the art of book-designing, the Treasure Room of Widener Library now has on exhibition a collection of books printed on vellum and issued by the chief modern English presses. Among the most valuable editions is a beautiful edition of Chaucer, bound in white pigskin, and printed on vellum, an edition of which only 13 are in existence. Another valuable and interesting book is an edition of Emerson, presented to the Library by the printer, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1908. On the inside cover he writes...
...bodies drew attention, the mechanics of motors drew questions. Body colors were brilliant on almost every car. Effective was the Reo Flying Cloud phaeton, grey with red line striping and with red leather upholstery. Effective too was the Cadillac touring car finished in cream & gold and with pigskin upholstery...