Word: leatherizing
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...Valkyries wear shimmering, skin-tight leather. Gigantic musclemen hammer each other like wrestlers...
...when "circus" was a word with magic, when kids impatiently waited through the year until the big tent went up again. And what they waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...
...suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...retail tax on jewelry, watches, furs, cosmetics and leather goods is gone. The reductions, however, will not be quite so generous for air conditioners, TV sets, typewriters, cameras and most other hard goods, which carried a tax that manufacturers paid directly to the Government. On a refrigerator that sells for $300 the reduction comes to $15-or only 5% of the actual retail price. A $500 color TV set will be trimmed about $30, and a $160 saxophone about $10. As for automobiles, this year's reduction will amount to 3% of the manufacturer's price-from...
...years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution. His plays and stories then could deal freely with the down-and-outers: barefoot bosyaki (hoboes) on the bum along Russia's great rivers; whores and thieves snarling "Ekh!" at one another in the dank cellars of Moscow; Lumpenproletariat in shiny leather jackets and dull despair. Gorky seemed a sort of Hemingway with heartburn...