Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's bed last week George II looked up at the Roman-nosed ancestors of Vittorio Emanuele III cut in the ceiling frieze. He ate spaghetti in the grande Salone da pranzo at a royal banquet table seating 20. By touching a button near his bedside telephone George II could connect himself with either of the royal parlors, or the Queen's intimate and exquisite camera da letto di Sua Maesta la Regina- although last week there was no Queen aboard...
JOSEPH CONRAD AND HIS CIRCLE-Jessie Conrad-Button ($3.75). A long study, principally devoted to the difficulties of married life with a stern and tormented writer, by Conrad's widow...
...caddy. Colonel William Lawson Little, watching his famed son & namesake try to win his second major British title of the season, found that a $1,200 letter of credit and several cashable checks had been extracted from his hip pocket by a thief who "had the impertinence to button it up again...
...FRUIT SIGNERS-Algernon Blackwood-Button ($2.50). Fantasy of a little girl who lives with her father and her black cat, peoples her house with pleasant imaginary companions...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...