Word: leatherizing
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...Pepper" Martin. Having thus taken a gallant flyweight, Death laid a bleak forefinger on the throat of Vincent ("Pepper") Martin, stopped his breath. Martin-a boring, windmill, hell-for-leather youth-first came to fame as a bantamweight, put on weight, entered the junior lightweight division. A fortnight ago he was beaten by Alike Ballerino, Junior Lightweight Champion. During the bout he whispered to his handlers that he had a pain in his chest. He was defeated, went to a hospital with pneumonia, was defeated again...
Brown is Fine Arts, from the leather jerkin or apron of a guild artisan...
...Before the Reichstag went Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, President-elect of Germany, dressed in frock coat, black satin tie, patent leather shoes-a civilian, but one who looked a soldier from toes to hair. His entrance was greeted by shouts from the Communists, but the old soldier seemed not to be aware of their existence. He then subscribed to the oath of office...
...Elliott headquarters hastened the reporter. In his mind burned a vision of inextinguishable deviltry-pirates, in look-me-over clothes and patent leather pumps, dicing for stock certificates upon a keg of dynamite. Instead, he found the Elliott sales force met together for a sing-song and smoker. They were mostly young men, dapper but demure. A fake, the Phonofilm Corporation? Why, they told the reporter, President Coolidge himself knew of it. Sure enough, the investigator beheld a phonofilm of the sharp-faced President, on the White House lawn, reading a speech...
...Everything that Shakespeare ever wrote--think of it! Plays, poems, sonnets, all under one cover--and such a cover! Flexible Keratol with the deep rich gaining of sumptuous leather--the bust of Shakespeare on the front--pages edged with gold on all three sides, too! An unparalleled opportunity and bargain of a life-time...