Word: leatherizing
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...menfolk except newspaper editors are heels in "The Lady From Cheyenne," with the result that the old West is going hell-for-leather to the dogs. It takes indignant women, storming from the home with cocked parasols, to transform the wild country into the good, solid U. S. A. Happily, the writers of this movie do not actually believe their legend, confessing in a whimsical prologue that they only "like to think so." Their product is thus an agreeable cross between the conventional horse-opera and a humorous study of the woman suffragette...
...weeks before war was declared, after six weeks of intensive effort, Baruch, commissioner in charge of raw materials, had set up organizations for total war: industrial committees of leaders in the great materials groups: leather, rubber, steel, wool, nickel, oil, zinc, coal, spruce wood. Then, at a time when War Department officers had no plans, even hypothetical, for the organization and equipment of an army of any size, the Advisory Commission began calculating what an army of 1,000,000 men would need...
...skins were being used for shoe leather...
...United States Marine Service had been accepted. Under the present peace-time setup, if they do enlist they will be able to return to school next preliminary training period this summer. Then after graduation in June of 1942 they will be subject to a year's service with the Leather-necks...
...ends with the grim words, "a diversity about fundamentals is intolerable." With this destruction of individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias...