Word: leatherizing
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...excited sentences. A roaring mob in a smoky arena stands up on its feet howling again and again. The grizzly farmer puffs faster on his pipe, his wife's knitting becomes jerky and distracted as they loan nearer their radio. A group of elderly gentlemen silently draw up their leather chairs...
...Secretary of the Treasury Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
...hats and no-hats bobbed enthusiastically through the hideous foyer of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre in grimy 14th Street one evening last week. Men in leather coats from Greenwich Village and tailcoats from Murray Hill, women in city silks and country tweeds were there to celebrate the return of Actress-Producer Eva Le Gallienne from her sabbatical year and the reopening of her famed dramatic workshop, closed all last year. Anything the Repertory company might have put on for its début would have excited cheers from its devoted following. The audience was still howling gratefully long...
Elbridge Rand Herron of New York loved mountain climbing as Ellsworth Vines Jr. loves tennis and Bobby Jones loves golf. At 33 he had hoisted his leather breeches to the tops of more unsealed Alps than any other U. S. citizen. Five months ago Alpinist Herron went to India with Miss Elizabeth Knowlton of Boston, only two U. S. members of a German expedition to climb Nanga Parbat, one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas (26,629 ft.). In August he was nearly crushed to death by an avalanche but reached an altitude of 23,000 ft. before...
Instead of the central character being God, it is Satan (A. B. Comatheire) in patent leather shoes and a pinchback suit, walking the earth as a natural...