Word: leatherizing
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...cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility. Little girls stand on tip toe and squirm while a doll says "mamma" and closes her eyes...
Died. Patrick Francis Murphy, 72, president of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), father-in-law of Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey (British journalist, cousin to Author Lytton Strachey) ; famed after-dinner speaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tall, elegantly dressed, Speaker Murphy was featured at dinners of The Lambs and Manhattan Clubs, at July 4 meetings of U. S. residents in Paris and London. Some Murphyisms...
Judge Olvany's law firm-Olvany, Eisner & Donnelly-during the years that its senior member couched in the big leather chair at the Tammany Wigwam, was particularly successful in pleading cases before the Board of Standards & Appeals. The Board rules on building and zoning laws...
...been sent to companies in more than 20 industries. Of 800 replies received, 58% pointed to busy winter prospects; 54%, of the responding concerns had either maintained or raised the wage scale. Eight industries actually showed gains over 1930. These were automobile accessories 14%, chemicals 11%, electrical 18%,, leather 27%, paper & pulp 14%, rubber 25%, stationery & printing 9%,, textiles 17%, miscellaneous...
...taught himself to fly within a week. During the War he organized and commanded the secret air squadrons whose mission was to wreak frightfulness on German cities in retaliation for Zeppelin raids over Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last week Lord Boom, successor to Lord Byng, spared the ears of the Press by saying nothing at all, sailed for Canada...