Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names are no; the only handiwork of the industrious scholar. One man, a student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...
...shouted Peter, "the little saint Vodka!" and he put his arms about great Jean and kissed him on the third button of his great warm kaftan...
Then they went away and pretty soon along came great Mrs. Maria Mickiewinski and her friend little Mrs. Anna Grigorovitch, and the top of little Anna's head came only to the third button of Maria's great warm vorotneke. And little Anna said to great Maria...
...wept Anna, "the little devil Vodka," and she put her arms about great Maria and kissed her sorrowfully on the third button of her great warm vorotneke...
...Vodka," said Lenin and Trotzky, and they raised their boots to the third button on the tail of Prince Michael's coat in order to help him through the door. And the long night was short and the cold night was warm to Lenin and Trotzky, because of the devilish little saint made of rye and barley and potatoes, the saintly little devil that trickles down one's throat and into one's stomach 'and so on,--Vodka...