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Word: buttoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butler, wife of the Senator from Massachusetts, to attend a Beethoven program at the Library of Congress. At a quarter of one she called on President Coolidge and induced him to enroll in the Red Cross. He made out a check for $25* and she pinned a Red Cross button on his lapel. At a quarter of two she received 75 women attending a convention of the Young Men's Christian Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

Government, at the end of their report published last week, explained how they had, in co-operation with the British Launderers' Research Association, spent a year and ?12,600 trying (unsuccessfully) to evolve a non-crumbling, non-cracking, non-bending, -bursting, -popping, -vanishing shirt-and-drawer button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Button | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dizzying | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

Lieut. Col. Kerwood is reported to have hotly denied that the Sherifians make use of U. S. uniforms or insignia. He declared that they wear a special variation of the French Colonial uniform and "wear the American eagle on a special button dissimilar to that on U. S. Army uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In the Riff | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

PERSEUS OR OF DRAGONS?H. P. Scott Stokes?Button ($1.00). This latest volume in the Today and Tomorrow Series is perhaps the lightest, but not the least pleasing. It could hardly be called an exhaustive discourse on all dragons, taking up only the early Greek, early Christian, mediaeval and ancient Egyptian species and their variants. But it does succeed in classifying these so that they may be readily recognized if met. Draconist Stokes does not really believe there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Tolerance | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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