Word: leatherizing
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...were about to attack the next hangar, a smaller one, when an efficient Teterboro policeman drove up, a stocky black-leather trooper who politely said that the blue executive had summoned him and that he would arrest us if we didn't quickly disappear. We retreated to Manny's Cockpit Restaurant, with its bicentennial decor, to dry off and plan strategy and punish ourselves with thoughts of condominiums and never-more-than-ten-minutes-of-rain-a-day. Two dozen yards off, Bruce was pumping gas into the Miami-bound Lear jet, and we couldn't look for its pilot...
...characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimantalist" soft spots of Rick in Casablanca or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in Petrified Forest. Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston thankfully understood that a film version could dispense with this redeeming moralism especially at the expense of Bogart's persona...
...Feat Joan Baez April 15--17 May 13 May 21 Jordan Hall the Orpheum the Orf did you figure that one our Garland Jeffries at the Berklee Performance Center on April 17 and you can't take grandma grandma nonono I won't list any sales at department or leather stores this week because this thing is taking longer than I thought it would and after all this is only a college paper an extracurricular activity or is it just a bad dream I'll opt for two of the latter on cissel or is it sissel bubby...
Baseball is unique, and it captures the hearts of the American people from the first time horsehide smacks a leather mitt in March, during the punishing heat of late summer and through the hellbent pennant drives of early autumn. From April to October, the second-section boxscore takes precedence over the front-page headline...
...road that "has been ready for blacktop for two years." Archie moved that $5,000 be allotted for blacktopping this year. The motion was voted down when it was explained that $5,000 would pave only about 150 ft. Mac Moody, an elderly town worker, hiked his leather hat back on his head and complained that "the state just don't want to spend money on little roads." Then he strode outside...