Word: leatherizing
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...Hollywood knows that Restaurant LaRue is the fashionable place to dine. Every evening some 280 fortunate film colonists jam the pistachio-&cocoa-striped booths, patiently wait their turn in the ebony-&-red-leather bar, or crowd the overflow tables on the flower-boxed French terrace. Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere...
...members of the House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation called on the President to present him with three handsome, white-leather-bound copies of their hearings on the development of the Columbia River. Mr. Roosevelt spied North Dakota's grizzled William Lemke, Union Party candidate for President...
First would come the expansion of heavy industry (steel, etc.), then of textiles, glass, leather and paper goods, to bacco, oil for consumers. The Indian capitalists who sponsored the plan pointed to the U.S.S.R., recalled that the Russians had to do without the things people like to buy while getting a start in basic production...
...where they are. Sometimes they write apropos of nothing: "How I would like to be back at Virginia Beach in October's bright blue weather, to scruff through the flaming new fallen leaves with a gun under my arm." "I remember Grandpa's study with its old leather chair." Where They Went. War scattered them in all directions. It picked them up out of their home towns and set them down in the middle of North Africa ("all around are dusty and rocky small hills. A little grass grows but very little") and in Camp Claiborne, La. ("This...
...First champion on record: Theagenes of Thasos, Olympic victor of 450 B.C. His standard punching equipment included the cestus, a fist-stiffener of leather bands loaded with iron. He won 1,406 contests, in which he killed most of his opponents...