Word: leatherizing
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...Cleveland, one Willie Williams, motorist, rattled over the pot-holed streets, was arrested and fined $10 for having on his car license plates that read "Ohio 1906." (In that year, Ohio's "plates" were brass numerals rivetted on leather pads...
Northward from Florida and Texas, eastward from the storm-drenched purlieus of Los Angeles they go ? 500 leather-cheeked, great-knuckled athletes, members of the 16 "big" league teams, presumably the best baseball players in the world. For two months they have been practising; playing exhibition games under the languid unimportant gaze of winter traveler and native, under the sharply appraising eye of owner, manager, scribe. Then northward, eastward they go for careful records show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April...
Craft. The aerial sleeper is now a commonplace to government couriers between Germany and Russia. Eight leather easy chairs in the passenger cabin convert into four bunks, with curtains. There are slight, agile cabin attendants; refreshment machines...
Fighting the first outside team it has ever engaged, the University boxing team will oppose the M. I. T. leather pushers tonight at 8 o'clock at the Hemenway Gymnasium...
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body...