Word: leatherizing
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...room in the Fort Steuben Hotel, Cas stripped off his scarred leather jacket and overalls. (He wore no underwear.) The trainer studied his body. The verdict: "A hell of a man with a beautiful pair of legs." Blaik interested Ohio Congressman George H. Bender, who appointed Myslinski to the Academy...
...Frederick Warren Conant, 51, leather-skinned, dry-spoken vice president in charge of manufacturing. Santa Barbara-born, Cornell-educated as a civil engineer, he went to work for Douglas at 50? an hour...
There was a cupboard in the room whose unknown contents terrified Peter more than the blows. When he said: "I have nothing to confess," they opened its doors (there was a typed inventory of its contents on the inside of the door) and brought out implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused...
...door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed jump. . . . A B-17 turned gradually out of the formation to the right, maintaining altitude. In a split second it completely vanished in a brilliant explosion, from which the only remains were four balls of fire, the fuel tanks, which were quickly consumed...
Jeannie (Tansa-English Films) entered the U.S. meekly by way of a Manhattan art theater, is still packing the place after nine weeks, drew the epithet "delightful" from leather-mouthed Walter Winchell, and has just been nationally released. With nothing more than their bare hands, a little intelligence, tenderness and characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander...