Word: leatherizing
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...neighboring turf; and spiritual ferment is often generated by studies quite outside college courses. A man in the Harvard class of 1908, who later distinguished himself, once told me that on a November day, when the Yale game was being played in New Heaven, he sat in a leather armchair beside a fire of logs in the library of the Union, from after breakfast until dusk, reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Autumn loured in cloudy skies and mourned in the gusty wind, steps scffed along the board-walks, football songs were whistled, the oak door slammed; it all sounded...
...first game, the outcome of the second game was decided in the sixth period. Then it was that the Americans, trailing 6?7, climbed on their best mounts with a grim purposefulness and rode hell-for-leather through the Britons, scoring four goals...
...majority so large as to assure his re-election in November. Well did each divorcee recall Judge Bartlett's warm friendly chambers on the second floor of the ornate courthouse where her decree had been granted-the pictures of the judge's family and dogs, the worn leather chairs, the old leather couch on which she, as a wife, sat and told her troubles to the judge behind his disordered desk. At that same desk sat Judge Bartlett last week reading stacks of congratulatory telegrams from women he had separated from husbands...
...sultry evening in the House of Lords last week, peers of the realm reclined at their ease on red leather benches thinking, most of them, of "The Twelfth," immemorial August opening of Britain's grouse season. That most pedantic Laborite peer, snowy-haired Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council, had the floor. The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying...
...Schmeling, world's champion heavyweight fighter, driving a fast motorboat alone on Scharmützelsee (large lake 18½ mi. from Berlin) dove off just before the boat sank, shed his overcoat, leather jacket and boots while swimming, was rescued, exhausted, after...