Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief lacerators were Harry Greb, untiring Pittsburgh dervish, and Ted Moore, British challenger for Greb's world's middleweight boxing title. Moore's "beak"* and "button"? afforded the champion 15 rounds of target practice with few interruptions...
...COBB OF THE WORLD-Edited by John L. Heaton (his colleague)-Button ($3.50); limited edition ($10.00). *A MAN IN THE Zoo-David Garnett- Knopf ($1.75) was reviewed in TIME, June...
ANCIENT FIRES-I. A. R. Wylie- Button ($2.00). Just why the hero of this breathless, love-and-adventure, intrigue-and-heroism tale had to be named John Smith remains a mystery. The story starts out in a quiet little English cathedral town, but the pace rapidly grows too swift for that atmosphere, so the locale is blithely transferred to one of those imaginary, comic-opera little countries in Central America...
...George's Day, April 23, King George "will press the button that will light the lights, start the wheels and will declare open the gigantic hundred-million dollar advertisement of virtually everything the British Commonwealth produces for sale." In other words, the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, six miles from Piccadilly Circus, under construction for two years, will have been officially opened to the public...
...seen in public without his hilt resting beneath his left hand was an occasion for the wildest conjecture. As is the case with almost everything else, however, the halo, of romance which formerly hung about the point of the sword has congealed into a small tape-wrapped button, and the wrought gold basket work of the hilt has become a guard of ordinary steel. There are, however, one or two consolatory features. From being the defense of the aristocratic few, sword-play, by means of fencing, has developed into a form of pleasurable exercise for the many...