Word: leatherizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bugs, not a farmer of yams or tobacco; that his name is Gentian, not Brown or Black; that he is not so much a retired army surgeon with impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes changing as a winter cloud, and a voice like "skeins of rock-crystal...
...most beautifully bound book in the colection, which has been placed on display is a copy of "Silex Scintillans", by Henry Vaughan, Silurist, published in 1650. This work by the well known English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher...
...become Chairman of the Executive Committee of the new bank. (Mr. Wiggin will be Chairman of the combined Board.) He too started banking early, at 18; came to Manhattan and has remained active in banking there more than 40 years. In 1902 he was made President of the old Leather Manufacturers' Bank and, when the Mechanics & Metals absorbed it, became President of the combination in 1904; Chairman of the Board in 1922. He is a director of the German Reichsbank, being on its General Board as a result of the Dawes Plan...
This was the turning point of the game. Instead of a safe lead of six points, the Crimson shooters soon found themselves with no advantage in points. With 20 seconds to go, Schofield tossed the leather through the strings from the foul line, winning the game for his team...
Germany at Armistice Time. "Our men are sallow, anemic, enfeebled; our weary women's skin is loose and wrinkled, like the leather of unlubricated machinery belting. The children, brought up without milk, wither away. . . . Thus we have lived for years...