Word: leatherizing
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Threading its way through Washington's crawling traffic, a black Buick convertible with red leather seats glided along the capital's stately avenues and slummy byways. Its driver, a man with a kindly but slightly worried expression, was as inconspicuous as his car was flashy. He looked like any slightly battered citizen going about his slightly battered business. And so he was. Columnist Drew Pearson was on the prowl for news...
...read a poem called "A Face," from a slip of paper she had, and followed that with one called "Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting." Then she opened a leather bound book and read "The Wood Weasel" ("I'm sorry it isn't an owl") and then her wartime poem "In Distrust of Merits" "And I don't think any better of it now than when I wrote it." Then she sat down...
This year, upwards of 130 students don the leather mittens every afternoon. Like the rest of Harvard, the sport is minutely organized. Beginners come at three and at four p.m., while the advanced classes work out each day from five...
...August's windows have just taken shape. No flash or luxury items this year; gadgets, leather cases, etc. are out. Practical wearing apparel is featured in this citadel of tradition, but a new line of ties has sneaked in somehow, and is expected to be successful...
There seemed little doubt that the 27th had suffered from lack of battle training and sloppy leadership, that it was equipped neither by discipline nor inclination for the Marines' hell-for-leather tactics. But Howlin' Mad's running battle with the Army served little present purpose. The whole story of the Army on Saipan seemed destined to take its place with such other military causes célèbres as the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign in World War I and the reason Longstreet was late in attacking Little Round...