Word: leatherizing
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...wandered among the Houses, unashamedly liking the College scene, summertime-style. Harried-looking people in seersucker coats toiled toward the subway kiosk with leather bags, and gleaming convertibles scooted off eagerly along streets leading away from the Square, but Vag was content...
...Factory. Isaac was born in Russia. But he did not go in lace and patent leather to one of Russia's prodigy factories, then on to famed Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, like Violinists Heifetz and Elman. The Stern family settled in San Francisco before Isaac's parents decided to make a violinist of him. Says Isaac: "They took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career...
...fiftyish, big, blonde and blowy. In California, where she came from, she told her friends she had invented a portable headrest called the "Sunap." It came in two models-blue canvas for men, imitation white leather for women. Another of Mom's gadgets was a "nonslip grater" which could be locked to the side of a chopping bowl. It was guaranteed not to shred fingers along with the carrots. Mom had a hard time marketing the grater. "Everyone liked it, dearie," she explained, "but shortage of tin-you know...
...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...
...Dakotas, Teal Eye runs away. Three days later the Indians attack and kill all the party except Boone, Jim and sardonic Dick Summers, a man swift and animal-sensitive, who ranks as the most vivid scout in literature since Natty Bumppo, in James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales...