Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail-shooting in Virginia . . . Turkey-shooting in Georgia . . . and then one day he pressed a White House button and scampered away, chuckling boyishly at the seriousness of secret service men. It is not impossible that Calvin Coolidge gave the electric hobbyhorse a tickle in the ribs just before it was packed up and shipped to Northampton, Mass...
...first tried to maneuver this meeting, but John J. Raskob snatched it from their greedy fingers. Eleven o'clock at Belle Isle was the hour. Smith skipped his breakfast to make it on time. With care he picked his Mtire?silk-faced cutaway, striped trousers, silk-topped patent leather button shoes, semi-formal overcoat with velvet collar. One hand picked up a cane; the other put a cigar in a mouth corner. The Brown Derby, above all, was set at an undefeated angle. Away streaked the baby-blue Rolls-Royce, minus any hooting police-escort. Cushioned snugly at Mr. Smith...
...come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away, chuckled as the previous scene repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually the Secret Service detail discovered the source of the false alarms, put in another bell in a spot unknown to the President. When this story became public, persons who question...
Citizens of the U. S. who wanted to peer at each page of the Ponsonby Report were glad, last week, that E. P. Button presses were whirring, producing copies entitled Falsehood in War-Time by Arthur Ponsonby, M. P., to be sold...
Married. Ralph Parizek and Amelia Hipsky; Paul Hipsky and Barbara Parizek; Charles Parizek and Irene Hipsky; all of Willington, Conn., where the Parizeks own a pearl button mill...