Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer Hitler struck as the bomb of the German-Russian Pact exploded, he would have begun the war with the advantage. Planted like a great mine before an entrenched position, prepared as stealthily as sappers burrow underground, it was in place, loaded, ready to go the moment the button was pressed. The great offensive in the War of Nerves mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler...
...Rochester Reliefer is Miss Mabel McFiggins. "I used to work in a button factory," said middle-aged Miss McFiggins, "but that was a long time ago. My arthritis, y'know." Along with others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm...
...Button-holed recently in the Stork Club in new York City, Walter Winchell admitted that he had received education despite all publicity to the contrary...
...eliminated forever. He's taking steps to do just that in the U. S. semi-pro finals here next August. He is arranging to have a tube run out to home plate at the stadium here containing compressed air. A man in the press box will push a button and the air will dust off the plate automatically...
When 76-year-old "Papa" Deibler, who as Monsieur de Paris had pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career, died last February, his 80-year-old Uncle Léopold Desfour-neaux was appointed temporary successor. Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux lacked his nephew's finesse, at his first execution took ten seconds to Deibler's customary three or four. Last week, after six weeks' cogitation, the prisons director pronounced Uncle Léopold's initial effort a complete success, thus making him France's new official high executioner...