Word: leatherizing
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When a newly initiated member of the Porcellian Club complained last year that sitting in a leather chair and singing praises to the walls was not the stimulating experience he had expected from club life, Theodore Roosevelt IV, '65 let him in on a bit of Porcellian philosophy. "We may be passive," Roosevelt said, "but we're aggressively passive...
Even the outward forms of British tradition got bent again last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan took the Labor government's annual budget to the House of Commons. Instead of the shabby red leather case, passed along from one Chancellor to another for decades, he carried in a new and ominously black one. From it he produced the most unexpected tax plans since Sir William Harcourt introduced death duties...
...when they made a visit in early October. After that, her tormentors became increasingly sadistic. John Baniszewski Jr., now 13, and two neighbor boys, diabetic Richard Dean ("Ricky") Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, both 15, joined the laceration game. Sylvia was burned with matches and cigarettes, whipped with a heavy leather belt, hit on the head with a paddle and broom. A 14-year-old girl who visited the house recalled: "It was 'Sylvia, do this' and 'Sylvia, do that' all the time, and when she didn't do it, they would beat...
They were all dressed up to see the dirty movies. Their leather clothes, like their paunches, were old but dignified. They had apparently seen the Wild One, and liked it. Even if Brando's hair was thinning they were loyally going to grow old with him. The leather pulls on their zippers were frayed, or, as in the case of the oldest, a nervous gentleman who had to be helped to his seat, they were entirely chewed away...
...Wilde at his Saigon residence, a room in a maternity clinic. The interpreter was Than Trong Hue, a Vietnamese member of the TIME staff, who addressed the monk with the "venerable" title reserved for the Buddhist clergy. Tri Quang was clad in a hospital gown, white pantaloons, and brown leather sandals...