Word: leatherizing
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There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
...dusty sanctum beneath the moldy crags of Memorial Hall, the world was good, and his heart was warm. The crash of heavy trunks reverberates slowly through sacred elms, and the last empty truck rattles futile chains as it whisks into the night; the faint whispering echos of listless leather on cold marble pass into infinity, and friendly beacons twinkle from the yard. Freshmen are a strange race characterized by anxiety, pennants, mothers, and rubbers; but they are dear to the Vagabond. The old fellow envies their careless confusion, he,--ah, there it is! Was that a first timid querulous Reinhard...
...what he believes to be the first recorded game of golf, reprinted from an illuminated Book of Hours in 1457 in the British Museum, Engineer Campbell dumped the rest of his treasures on the deck for the benefit of ship news reporters. They included a number of bullet hard leather pellets stuffed with feathers. "These are the famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took...
With souvenir green leather folders stuffed with postage stamps in their pockets, the delegates rushed off to catch trains and boats. Not until two days later was the Press told what Messrs. Bennett, Baldwin, Bruce et al., and King George, and the people of Argentina, Denmark, Russia and the U. S. had got out of the conference...
Quos: 1) preference to 220 British commodities (including textiles, iron & steel, chemicals, leather) through free entry, lower preferential rates or increased tariffs on foreign commodities; 2) abolition of surcharges on British goods "as soon as the finances of Canada will allow"; 3) a promise not to increase duties on any British goods without recommendation by its Tariff Board, with Britain granted audience before the board...