Word: leatherizing
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...President Harding. A troop of advisers, technical experts, aides and clerks accompanied them. Also, several peace organizations sent along unofficial delegates of their own. Peace petitions were signed and loaded aboard. When the ship sailed Aviatrix Ruth Nichols flew round the masts clad in a purple leather jacket, went aboard at Quarantine and presented Delegate Woolley with two large bunches of spring flowers. The Federal Council of Churches gave the delegates its blessing and called for a nation-wide Day of Prayer in their behalf...
...times when the sedentary life, with pipe, Tom Collinses, an arm chair and all the other appurtenances of leisure seem the only thing, indeed when they are the only thing. On the threshold of such an epoch the Vagabond has arrived, Dunhill in hand. He is sick of wastin' leather on gritty pavin' stones. He is also sick of college. Above all he is sick of grinding out his daily drivel for the unmitigated pleasure of Freshmen while they wait for their questionable eggs at the Union. There is something revolting about the eternal, saccharine romance he spows forth...
...bench only with great difficulty. His 90 years settled like a dead weight around his shuffling feet and lumbago stooped his black-gowned shoulders low. A strong steady hand from Chief Justice Hughes finally got him up the steps to the bench, steered him to his high-backed black leather chair. There the oldest man ever to sit on the Supreme Court settled down to read in a voice forced to firmness one of the court's two opinions for the day, an inconsequential thing sustaining a liquor law conviction...
...Angeles last week, long, lean William Gibbs McAdoo cocked an acquisitive eye across the continent upon the big red leather chair in the U. S. Senate which holds the long, lean frame of Republican Senator Samuel Shortridge of Menlo Park, Calif. Would the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson step out of the political obscurity which has enveloped him since his retreat from Madison Square Garden in 1924 and offer himself as a Democratic candidate for the Senate?* Solemnly Son- in-Law McAdoo announced: "A large number of men and women of standing and character have been urging...
...oval table in the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland has been strewn every day for nearly three weeks with shiny leather portfolios, smudgy glass ashtrays, trim boxes of bank pins, glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's tumble-toy, glass-stoppered carafes full of plain water and, in neat piles, hundreds of sheets of foolscap (see cut). Thus equipped the 14 men around the table (twelve august finance experts, two alert interpreters) have been toiling and quarreling as the Young Plan Advisory Committee on Germany's capacity...