Word: leatherizing
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...progressive social-service and public-welfare laws in the world, and that these laws and the Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied by most of the States of the Union and by foreign governments is never stressed by the leather-lunged hirelings of so-called 'reform movements' that sprout, attain rank, growth, and wither, all within a few years...
...Leather. Many U. S. makers of shoes, purses, gloves, buy their high grade goat and kid skins from Martin Zimmer Lederwerke, A. G., of Frankfort-am-Main, Ger many, and their reptile skins from Alpina Ltd. of Paris and Berne. The two tanning firms are now consolidated...
...elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in the public a kind of stupefied saturation, with symptoms of debility, inanition and imbecility; elsewhere newspapers are grouped in the hands of a few individuals who consider journalism an industry, like iron or leather...
...particularly inceused at finding my name on this accursed list not because I have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which I point with pride as the result of nearly forty years practice in Palmer Method...
...saloon window ledge romantically viewing the moonlit sky. The men . . . have reminded each other not to forget evening jackets and boiled shirts in their baggage. We have drawn ourselves lovely pictures of dining elegantly in mid-air with Commodore Eckener at the head of a flower-decked table . . . but . . . leather coats, woollies and furs will be our evening dress. Hot soup and steaming stew more welcome than cold caviar and chicken salad...