Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Curator Blake-More Godwin of the Toledo Museum of Art, pressed a button. Curtains fell in the 19 great display windows in the famed Toledo department store of Lasalle & Koch (pronounced "cook") revealing 19 vast paintings of Toledo industry...
Indianapolis may not be an exceptionally corrupt U. S. city, yet last week it found itself in a situation even more idiotic than a game of button-button-who's-got-the-button into which a rowdy player has inserted a second button. Last week, Indianapolis had four "mayors...
...From newspapers a President of the U. S. receives blessings and maledictions in about equal proportions. Seldom is a President reluctant to perform as President Coolidge did last week. In the White House, he pressed a button which closed a circuit which passed a current which started a motor which set a-humming some news presses in a new plant of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal...
...invention is for aviators flying in difficulty. The aviator presses a button which releases compressed air which blows him from his plane. Clear of the plane, the aviator presses another button, which releases another can of compressed gas, which inflates his suit. By spreading his arms he can float to land...
...than one of every three living. Last year at Des Moines we had two delegates from Manila, and one from one of our two camps in China. This time we had none. Why should we not stick our chests out at times and be proud to wear the bronze button, which, by the way, is made from metal taken from the Old U. S. S. Maine. which started the whole dam thing. AUSTIN C. ROWELL...