Word: leatherizing
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...wanted to be locked in one of the cabins for the night so as to be safe from Indians. Mrs. Wynaendts-Francken of Holland, relative of Edward Bok, went about in the mud wearing sabots. A young lady from Egypt started on a hike in a pair of patent leather slippers...
...Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless days are nights for many snow-blind Eskimos, days of black sunlight; that the Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food available; that thieving is unknown among them; that at their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped...
...former court jeweler of Wilhelm II confessed to the police that the crown was brought to him in a leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm...
...once tall and powerful man, reduced to a spectre by contusions in which gangrene had developed, died last week at Cannes, French Riviera. Fascist bludgeons ? semi-flexible weapons of wood fibre covered with leather and loaded with lead ? killed him, drove his wife insane. These blows were struck many months ago, at Montecatini, in Tuscany (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925). It was only last week that their full effect was felt. Never again will Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Italian "Aventine Opposition," onetime Colonial Minister under Premier Nitti, stand up to oppose Benito Mussolini. The assassins are known...
Died. Congressman Harry I. Thayer of the 8th Massachusetts District, 56, noted leather industrialist arid a former President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; at Wakefield, Mass...