Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...
...Thomas did not pop a suspender button last week as he did at his first Philharmonic concert in 1928. He was not suffering from gout nor had he tumbled into the first violins at rehearsal (TIME, March 14, 1932). But Sir Thomas always affords sure entertainment. He strolled on stage as casually as if he were taking an everyday turn in the park. He bowed leisurely, shrewdly appraised his audience. Then with a bounce he was up on the stand, swinging his baton as if it were a cricket bat, crouching, dancing, shaking his fist, whipping along a performance which...
...Button & Co. has been publishing good books for 77 years. Grand Old Man of Button's is a white-whiskered Virginian named John Macrae, 68, president since 1923. A longtime Button custom has been to give employes a Christmas ''bonus'' of a new $10 bill. Last year Depression cut the bonus to $2.50, to the mental anguish of the three proud litterateurs who accept or reject Button books. Last week the three got together beforehand and resolved not to accept another $2.50 tip. When the cashier appeared with the envelope, each said with decision, "Thank...
...Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel presents Shirley Temple in hoop skirts and high-button shoes, pairs her with Tap Dancer Bill Robinson. Still first-rate entertainment are the steps the two per form in a slave cabin, when they wish to distract a Yankee colonel, and again in a street when they seek to raise money to take them to see Abraham Lincoln. Miss Temple sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with...
...victuals still taste good," Horace Button Taft jovially assured 300 of his "old boys" at the New York Yale Club last week. Despite that sign of health the brother of the late William Howard Taft was announcing his retirement within the year as headmaster of Taft School. In a profession studded with Grand Old Men. Headmaster Taft at 73 shares with Groton's Endicott Peabody (TIME, Oct. 28) the distinction of being the grandest of them all. A distinguished, kindly man,'"Brother Horace" has the Taft good humor, the Taft chuckle, the flowing Taft mustache. But because...