Word: leatherizing
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...youthful inexperience. But a box of Milky Way candy bars [consolation prize] to that lady!" A correct answer stirs the Doctor to the joyful cry: "Pay that lady 15 silver dollars!" One night he innocently asked a man to tell him the principal use of cowhide, expecting "shoe leather" for an answer. Said the contestant: "To keep the cow from falling apart." The nameless hero took the audience's heart and a pocketful of silver dollars...
...Ovation. Senator Alben Barkley formally nominated Franklin Roosevelt next afternoon, in 40 minutes of ponderous eulogy. Instantly the aisles were crowded with marchers, hundreds of delegates ably abetted by the leather-lunged 27th Ward-heelers who stooge for Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly. Placards which they had been holding face down as they sat were now waved high: "Roosevelt and Victory"; "Roosevelt and Lasting Peace." The organ, and a brassy band above it in the gallery, blanketed the loud speakers with furious music. Timed, the actual cheering for the President lasted only 14 seconds; after that the organ...
...P.A.C.'s convention headquarters were in two 19th-floor rooms of the Sherman Hotel, filled with red leather chairs and Renoir prints. Here P.A.C.'s assistant chairman, Calvin ("Beanie") Baldwin, and its research director, smooth, balding Economist J. Raymond Walsh, held sway, totting up the Wallace count, working on delegates, calling the printer for more placards. Across the hall was a small room, with the blinds half-drawn, where Sidney Hillman took catnaps between conferences...
Einstein rarely wears socks except in winter, at home usually dresses in slippers, baggy pants and a brown leather jacket, which he refuses to change even to receive distinguished visitors. His Spartan study at Princeton, from which even his family is sternly barred, is furnished only with an unpainted table, a few unpainted shelves, a pencil and paper for his mathematical calculations. Though his salary from the Institute for Advanced Study is $20,000 a year (four times the sum he suggested when the Institute asked him to name his own figure, according to Marianoff), he has never owned...
...advocates believe that aluminum dust may banish shortness of breath, chest constriction, the threat of tuberculosis. (Said one Canadian miner: "Aluminum takes the leather out of your lungs.") They also think that aluminum breathed after each day's mining or dusted into mines may prevent silicosis altogether. But the day of its general adoption is still a long way off. As research on the subject is not yet complete, Mclntyre Research, Ltd. (the original discoverers) has patented its use of the dust, will apply the royalties to further study...