Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe and the Near East, Benito Mussolini decided last week that the moment had come for a diplomatic retreat. For the first time since Italy's entry into Addis Ababa, he ordered his Ambassador to Britain, Dino Grandi, to pay a formal visit to Anthony Eden. The proper button was pressed, the Italian Press burgeoned with articles referring to Italy's long friendship for Britain, and II Duce himself received Correspondent Gordon Lennox of the London Daily Telegraph. Said...
...plane landed. For five hours the public was kept away as the royal family went over the ship from stem to stern, lunched together in private. Irrepressible Princess Elizabeth loudly demanded to be shown the children's nursery, screamed with excitement when she was allowed to push a button that sent the hoarse boom of the Queen Mary's whistle echoing across Southampton Water...
...with a "slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...
...goings in search of oil, made friends all over Kansas. Shortly after his first wife died in 1918, Alf Landon volunteered for Army Service, was called in mid-September, commissioned a Lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Division in October, month before the Armistice. Candidate Landon wears his American Legion button, does not talk much about his War record...
HEAD O' W-HOLLOW-Jesse Stuart-Button...