Word: leatherizing
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...16th Century Jesuit crossed the Channel in high spirits and in the gallant disguise-according to later charges-of "a velvet hat and a feather, a buff leather jerkin and velvet Venetians." For a full year Campion rode up & down the English counties, eluding the Queen's men, saying Mass in secret in Catholic houses. The Jesuits, Waugh says, "came with gaiety among a people where hope was dead...
...known to have rich and imaginative friends who might try to engineer another getaway. So the sheriff, taking no chances, held the hanging one day in November 1903 in a corridor of the Laramie County jail. Militiamen were posted outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked a joke. Water trickled out of a tank; the trap was sprung...
Next door is a paneled office filled with leather divans. There sits Curran, his hat cocked over one eye, his feet usually cocked up on the elegant, modernistic desk...
Then he remembered the last semester. It had been successful, he felt. He had run through his finals with case-well, without too much trouble. And the future...It would be even better. The summer would be long, difficult perhaps... Vag noticed the ruptured ducks and the worn leather flight jacket. No, he wasn't alone...
...something to the main features that distinguished the old N.O.W. men. Compare some of those ancient fossilized discs by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick ragtime mannerisms. The trumpet was considerably more limited in function, the rhythm less obviously two-beat, and the trombone quite tuba-like. The amount of electrical excitement generated by the old timers was considerable, however, a quality with which their successors...