Word: leatherizing
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...Corey, Our Side made ten runs to the faculty's twenty, and the only argument now is whether the players or the cheering squad had more fun. It was worth the walk to Soldiers Field and back just to see Captain McIntosh posing for the camera as a leather-lunged umpire, cap on the back of his head with the be-spinached bill behind...
...breezy little General Walker was pale from his months in the Army War Plans Division at Washington. His huge sunglasses made him look like a long-nosed owl. Like most airmen in the Pacific, he wore shorts but, like no one the airmen had ever seen, he also wore leather riding boots...
...richly appointed state dining room. Tuxedoed Secret Service men stood on guard, colored waiters came & went, a homely beer barrel was cunningly concealed in a feathery bank of fern. (Cheese & crackers went with the beer.) At the room's south entrance the President sat in a big red leather chair, the famed ivory cigaret holder tilted audaciously, the famed charm sparkling and bubbling like champagne. So seductively supercharged was the Roosevelt manner that it shocked one of his guests to a state of real alarm. Said Nebraska's dapper freshman Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, come to take...
Denouement. The discussions were over. Back to Washington went President Roosevelt, carrying a leather-bound book signed by all the men who had taken part in the historic meeting. The news could now be announced, in a communique which hinted of the greater news to come...
...Past. The Revolution that was begun in 1917 by a handful of leather-coated working men and pallid intellectuals waving the red flag, by 1942 had congealed into a party government that has remained in power longer than any other major party in the world. It began under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, on Marxist principles of a moneyless economy which challenged the right to accumulate wealth by private initiative...