Word: leatherizing
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...Looking as tough as saddle leather and about the same color from 20 years in the Moroccan sun and winds, the adjutant smiled, barked an order in Arabic and in less than a minute we were swinging off through the woods single file. Six riflemen were ahead and six behind...
...Leather-lunged Bobby Breen, 12, retired from work as a cinemasinger. Reason: his voice is changing...
...usual, a soft buzzer sounded, the little page-boys scampered aside, the great red curtains parted, and the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court stepped between them to their black-leather chairs behind the long mahogany bar. But this time there was a difference. At Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes' left, a chair was draped in black; on his right sat one of the loneliest men in the world. No spectator on last week's decision-day could look at gaunt, craggy-faced James Clark McReynolds* without a stir of sympathy...
Shoemaker Melville can afford to help the industry out. With his warehouses full of leather, the price increase should give him a nice inventory profit. Price boosts may work quite satisfactorily until they begin to set consumption back to the 1929 level...
...summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose and easy on the open hand, it bunches a bit when the fist is closed...