Word: leatherizing
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Bertie Wooster, pensive on a leather sofa, brooded alternately about his aunt's unreasonableness and the subject all the chaps had been champing at dinner-Old Plum's incredible antics in Berlin...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...
...trend is to live as close to offices and factories as possible, to save on tires, gas, shoe leather...
Thus Navy task missions out of Honolulu have become hell-for-leather, slam-bang affairs planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...
...exchange via Lisbon. In other South American countries, acting on their own initiative, they asked permission to stay even if interned. Others wangled or wandered into Argentina and Chile, only two countries left where they were officially welcome. Wherever they could, they bought up all the silk stockings and leather goods in sight...