Word: leatherizing
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...this shack, slim, brown-eyed, tangle-bobbed Artist Maclver once spent a winter. But every other winter since she was 16 she has lived in one or another dusty studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Last week, in her skylit garret on MacDougal Street, wearing leather sandals and paint-splattered slacks, she welcomed more interviewers from the press than she had ever seen in her life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures...
...original economic theory. The Promises Men Live By, a 492-page volume addressed to laymen, is offered as "a new approach." Its author, shrewd, 51-year-old Harry Scherman, is president and owner of the Book-of-the-Month Club, onetime successful adman and originator of the Little Leather Library, which in two years (1923-25) sold 40,000,000 copies through such outlets as Woolworth's and the Whitman Candy...
Behind patrols of tanks, armored cars and motorcycles mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
Died. James A. Ten Eyck, 86, since 1903 rowing coach at Syracuse University; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami, Fla. A professional oarsman whose first sliding seat was greased leather sewn on his trunks, Ten Eyck once rowed his wife around Manhattan, at 65 rowed from Syracuse to Albany to prove his fitness, at 80 rowed in shells with men young enough to be his great-grandsons...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...