Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Katharine Green Macrae, daughter of John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. (publishers); to Benjamin Stuart Tongue of Baltimore; in Manhattan...
...GENERATION?By "One of Us."?Century ($1.50). If they could believe that "One of Us," aged 17, is typical, the shakers of heads at contemporary adolescence would sigh with relief. She speaks, like her elders and Dr. Holmes's woodpecker, solemnly of unimportant things. "Bright as a button" well describes her. She is as wholesome as spinach. As for her generation (unless as may be, she is utterly typical), it will be faintly disturbed by writing which for docile triteness resembles nothing so much as one of Dr. Prank Crane's high-school themes. It is to be hoped...
...have a button to wear in the lapel or on the dress bearing a proper symbol, and representing TIME-readers. I'm sure most of us subscribers would like to know that the man we meet is an up-to-the-moment "peppist," and we would be glad to pay a nominal price for such buttons or insignias...
Conscious of their good intentions the Baldwins stayed, went among the stricken families. To one Mr. Button, two of whose miner sons were killed by the explosion, Premier Baldwin said: "I have come to see you as man to man-not as Prime Minister. I feel very sorry for you in your great loss." Meantime Mrs. Baldwin held Mrs. Button's hand, urged Mrs. Button from the fervor of her own faith to seek consolation in prayer...
Other marvels: 1) the "stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern...