Word: leatherizing
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...said before, that "bird cage" or steel-frame construction, the enfant terrible of architecture, will probably grow up safely into a dignified adult. And he might have stunned them further-he the disciple of William Morris and deplorer of the vanishing of skilled craftsmen in wood, stone, embroidery, leather, stained glass-by telling them that he hopes some day to write a history of U. S. architecture which in great part would be the biography of his friend, Ernest Robert Graham, mightiest builder of all time in the U. S., commander of regiments of shovelers, armies of masons, riveters, roofers...
...among the students. The book, appearing early in the year, will promote friendships during the rest of the college season. The association of names, the recognition of clubs and fraternities will aid considerably in maintaining a permanent record of the classes and class organizations. The volume, bound in red leather, contains the usual group and individual pictures, articles on the Business School Clubs, and the School of Business Research...
...Premier's servants, lifting the coffin lid,, were startled by something more ominous than a mere grinning skeleton, which might have seemed appropriate. The coffin contained instead a handsome disemboweling knife beautifully encased in a white leather scabbard and resting on a ceremonial tray. By this expensive present the Kamiya Keiseisha (Opposition Party) pointedly conveyed to the Premier their opinion that he is a perjurer and ought to commit harakiri...
...college and university, daily before the public eye would stress such things as have been mentioned by the "Herald" and the "Times", then the country at large might have a saner conception of what college really means. And the moving picture hero with a crazy-quilt sweater and patent leather hair might be removed from his niche of credence in the public mind...
Several characters from Constantinople fell in the drinking fountain and had a Turkish bath. Wild west characters with guns and spurs rode the floor to perfection, not pulling leather either...