Word: leatherizing
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...would cluster around father as he read Dickens to them. Tom's mother wrote a dramatic poem on the life of Savonarola. Tom Eliot was a frail and quiet child. Often, when friends wanted him to come out and play, they found him curled up in a big leather armchair, reading...
Then she drove off with her captors. Later she was taken to Las Ventas women's prison on Madrid's outskirts. Her butler stood waiting with her "prison kit," a large suitcase containing grey flannel slacks, leather jacket, woolen undies, sleeping bag, cologne water and salmon silk pajamas. The duchess has been jailed four times since 1947, always keeps her kit ready...
There were seven men in the band, but they just happened to like the name Firehouse Five Plus Two. On the stand they wore red shirts, white suspenders and ancient leather firemen's helmets. They played standing up and they irreverently displayed a reproduction of Whistler's Mother when they honked out You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mamma at All in a solid two-beat, flatfoot jazz style...
...does once each year, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s stooped, bushy-browed President Leroy Alton Lincoln last week invited reporters to discuss his company's annual report over lunch in his leather-paneled executive dining room. As boss of the world's biggest life insurance company, he had some impressive figures to give them. In 1949, said Lincoln, Metropolitan had boosted its assets 6% to a mammoth $9.7 billion. It had not yet overtaken the world's biggest corporation-American Telephone & Telegraph, whose assets total $10.8 billion...
...little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed him with the traditional Indian gesture of clasped hands. Twenty-one guns boomed a salute...