Word: leatherizing
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...after day last week, 900 Methodists sat in the blue leather chairs of Kansas City's big Municipal Auditorium, soberly seeking God's guidance in the building of their new, united Methodist Church. In their deliberations there was evident pride in what they were doing, and a homely pood-fellowship which transcended sectional differences. Even the Negro Question, a fearsome lurker, was accidentally hauled out of its dark corner and given a pat on the back...
Inferior as melodrama, Rose of Washington Square is tops as a vehicle for displaying the talents of two superlative song pluggers. Plugger Jolson, still leather-lunged at 52, blacks his face and shouts
...amiable duty of announcing surpluses. To Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer for nearly two years, has come the unenviable task of "opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone of voice, proceeded coldly to name astronomical figures the like of which Parliament had never heard...
...200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed, the 212th he has produced. Some signs that Producer-Director DeMille, who at 58 still affects the leather puttees and riding breeches of his salad days, is still going strong...
...Five marble-floored rooms at the extreme east end of the station, with a private exit to motor cars. Three of the rooms are high-ceilinged salons with official seals, handsome paneling, mahogany & blue leather furniture. Two retiring rooms are fitted with new streamlined plumbing (light cream...