Word: leatherizing
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...century funeral slab. He may have to catalogue each work in several different ways-by character, by scene (e.g., Christ teaching), by object (e.g., Solomon's Temple). Finally, he has to enter his information on one of 16 different types of cards-grey for textiles, brown for leather, white for sculpture...
...virulent campaign fever, but already 500 people were squeezed into the school auditorium. The candidate they were waiting for, a tall man who showed his 62 sedentary years but had a determined look, slipped off the bus with amazing agility. In the bus he left a bulging, battered, yellow leather briefcase with a gold-lettered name almost erased by the wear & tear of political travel. Everyone knew the name: Robert A. Taft...
...electric buzzing of voices gave way to a soft shuffling, as lawyers and spectators got to their feet. Out from a break in a heavy red velour curtain came black-robed Chief Justice Fred Vinson, followed by the eight associate Justices. After each had settled into a high-back leather chair, Vinson hunched forward and read from the court calendar: "No. 744, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, et al., versus Charles Sawyer. No. 745, Charles Sawyer versus the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company...
...Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...
...idea that he was a woman-chasing, whisky-drinking revolutionary who strapped his airplane to his backside and amused himself, on taxpayers' gasoline, from one end of the country to the other. Even in World War II the comic strips knew him best for the open leather flight jacket and the "50-mission" cap perched precariously on the back of his head...