Word: leatherizing
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With the right hand leading ("The left is lazy," explains M. Martin), the lively little duet twinkled through an intricate tango. Then the enterprising right fingers slipped into a pair of wee leather boots, flew into a Russian Kozatzki. After that; the astonishing finger-feet stepped into little silver slippers, the handiwork...
...Guard on Chessad Ezba, a mountain eight miles from Lake Ashangi, spread his support on surrounding peaks. Marshal Badoglio had assembled 200 bombing and pursuit planes. He had Alpini and Sabauda Divisions facing the Ethiopian Guard and was able, after an amazing forced march, to whip another division of leather-footed Eritrean native troops along Haile Selassie's right flank...
...whole plot revolves around the question of Jack's ancestry, which is rather questionable, as Jack was found comfortably ensconced in a black leather bag in the cloak-room of the Victoria station. Lady Blacknell refuses to accept that as sufficient ancestry, Jack sets out to do something about it, and "thereby hangs a tale...
Since Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir ("Gentlemen of the Leather Pads," functionaries of the French State who sit on leather pads) are the class of voters perhaps most devoted to M. Blum, they would expect to get even better jobs and more of them in the Socialist Bureaucracy his new French deal would create. With approval Orator Blum has hailed what he calls the "bold grandeur" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "sound ideas...
...Hurja's value to the Party consisted chiefly in keeping well out of the spotlight, leaving the speech-making to professional leather-lungs. Practically unknown to the public at large, he went home to Crystal Falls to vote in the 1934 election. A local paper sent a reporter to interview him. Although that region had always elected a Republican to Congress, Mr. Hurja told the reporter that the Democratic candidate would be elected by a majority of about 3,460 votes. His prediction was published under the headline "The Crystal Gazer from Crystal Falls." The Democratic majority...