Word: leatherizing
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...instance, the locals showed in spang new leather suits which thoroughly surprised everyone. And one year they showed up with Percy Haughton, a great punter and an even greater coach...
...typical American college boy abroad in his tourist uniform looked something like this: He had a crew cut, khaki pants, and a seersucker coat with the green edge of a U. S. passport showing above the edge of his inside breast pocket. There was always a camera in a leather case slung Sam Brown belt style over one shoulder, and in his right hand he carried a guide book, open. Vendors of beads, lace, and leather goods, and certain attractive young business women could spot him a mile...
...fascinating show for the M.P.s, who sat packed in cheek-by-jowl discomfort on the red leather benches. There was not room for all to sit down; a group of standees looked on eagerly from the rear of the room. The M.P.s were bemused by the champions but not awed by them; both debaters were frequently interrupted by heckling and laughter...
Though far from the comforting rumble of the Third Avenue "el," Gardner is not likely to become homesick. Under the new law, 50 U.S. companies (chinaware, leather goods, textiles) have already moved to Puerto Rico and more are expected by boat and plane...
...night last week Garry Davis, self-appointed Citizen of the World, rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...