Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Musselman of Harrisburg was ordered to buy a $5 Jackson-Day-Dinner ticket, paid $1 in advance but protested he could not afford the balance, lost his WPA job two months later. ¶O'Neill C. Cook of Tionesta appeared at his WPA project wearing a Landon sunflower button, shortly lost his job. ¶Mary Caroline Shearer of Indiana was ordered to contribute $27 to the Democratic County Committee on pain of being barred from future WPA work, refused, was barred...
Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...
...Colorado the gates were closed months ago; a great lake has come into being behind the dam, a lake generating power,* and at this moment the powerful turbines are awaiting the relatively tiny impulse of an electric current which will flow from the touch of my hand on the button which you see beside me on the desk, to stir machinery into life, to stir it into creative activity to generate power." This was pardonable hyperbole, for the first of Boulder Dam's 15 generators of 115,000 h. p. each will not be ready for operation until next...
...puts down the sardonic comments on tall tales: "Go on, I'm listening." . . . "Aw shut up, close your trap, button your tongue, you talk too much." He lists the common exaggerations that are so common their mockery is seldom heard...
...FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND- Van Wyck Brooks-Button...