Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Button...
Next to his neck A. F. Sims of Wichita, Kans., wore the same gold collar button for 33 years. Last week he died, after willing the button to his father...
...American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing Christmas carols around the lighted porte-cochère. President & Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge and a choir sent by the Interstate Commerce Commission, led the caroling . . . Christmas at the White House was quiet...
...President pressed a button. Tons of briny mud heaved loose in a new 25-foot channel into the Miami, Fla., harbor...
SPLENDOR-Ben Ames Williams- Button ($2.50). Quietly and carefully Author Williams tells the story of Henry Beeker, faithful newspaperman. Son of a blacksmith father, Henry enters the employ of a Boston newspaper as an office-boy-just for a summer vacation period. He does his work well and is encouraged to give up school, to remain with the paper. Filled with splendid visions, he agrees. Follow years of small successes, small sorrows, marriage, babies, undimmed visions. Life's autumn finds Henry definitely shelved -almost pensioned-in the profession he has studied so long but never conquered. He still gazes...