Word: leatherizing
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Offense. One day last week Hugh Dalton strode confidently across the tessellated inner lobby of the House of Commons; he knew that he held Britain's spotlight. In his battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey...
...London last week the big cream-&-gold salon of Lancaster House had been tidied up. The ornate wall mirrors, the candelabra and the red leather chairs were dusted and in place. The Big Four Foreign Ministers were ready for another try at writing the German and Austrian peace treaties...
Siqueiros was a hell-for-leather Communist of the old-fashioned sort, and could never keep his eagle beak out of trouble: jail was always interrupting his painting. He is still a devoted party liner, though the Communists expelled him in 1930 for visiting his girl friend when he was under orders to hide out. They thought that the girl friend was being watched by the police. The police were on his trail anyway, replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when...
...book's central character is an unhappily married socialite who lives in a world of blue leather engagement books, French beds, alabaster lamps and gold pillboxes. But she finds it a sterile life, and when a brigadier general comes along she follows him back to his garlicky East Side origins. In an atmosphere of cracked oilcloth, leaky sinks and potato pancakes, she discovers the simplicity and goodness that is missing in her own world...
Something well worth staying away from is the annual Wet Down ceremony in the spring. The senior class forms a double column across the commons and all the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and campus wheels in that order run the gauntlet of flailing leather belts. As each bruised figure reaches the end of the line, he joins in to wreak vengeance on those behind. "Thus do freshmen become sophomores," writes the Daily Dartmouth...