Word: leatherizing
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...print, but to Samuel Johnson, 1709-84. Woody is his own Boswell and reports that he has an antique gold pocket watch, he sits on a Queen Anne chair and writes with a quill pen, shaves with a straight razor and decorates his apartment with English candleholders, snuffers, and leather-bound first editions. "What I need is a wig and breeches," he adds ambitiously...
...stage left sit four actors (Max Adrian, John Barton, Paul Hardwick. Dorothy Tutin) in evening dress, their only props a coffee table with decanter and water glasses, large leather-covered books to scribble in with quill pens, and a portable lectern. At stage right stand a harpsichord, a piano, a trio of skillful balladeers and their accompanist, who provide a harmonic counterpoint of period music to the proceedings. The actors read letters, poems and memoirs by and about royalty, together with historical reminiscences and profiles sketched by hard-eyed courtiers and literary greats from Malory to Jane Austen...
...England house, Author Eric Sloane found a wood-backed, leather-bound diary written in 1805 by a 15-year-old boy. Its entries were terse: "June 3-Helped Father build rope hoist to move the water wheel." or "June 26-Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm...
...furniture and piano, her library, her family portraits, and a sampler she sewed herself. In an august bureau against the far wall, Gridley located the autograph manuscripts of her poems, left just where they had been found at her death. Now, of course, the pages were enclosed in leather folders, but each folder also contained the original strings that Emily Dickinson used to tie up the poems...
...ministers took the oath of office last week beneath the Bundestag's plump, lead-grey German eagle, Adenauer lolled in a black leather chair, looking more than ever like a wily Sioux chieftain clad in a cutaway. Dapper, handsome Dr. Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democrats, sat perkily in a front-row seat. Pink-cheeked Dr. Erhard barely said good morning to Adenauer, and glanced casually through a newspaper during the Chancellor's brief speech...