Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that it was all over but the voting and the buttons. After voting every German had an opportunity to buy for five pfennigs (2?) a button stamped "Ja, 1933!" Few failed to buy. Scowling Nazi strong-arm men warned, "to vote Nein and wear a Ja button is to wear...
...author of The Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author of Humanity Uprooted and Red Bread. INSIDE...
...arrived at the door just as the alarm went off-and they saw the police rushing about. But they were treated with nothing but courtesy themselves and no "screeching" of "assassins" was heard by them. Someone had punched the alarm bell by mistake thinking it was an electric light button-and of course the police on guard were at once excited and rushed about some. But your account of it all is absurd...
...HEAD-Margaret Fishback -Button ($2). More light verse by the lightly versatile authoress of I Feel Better...
...sharp eye of President Roosevelt last week focused upon women's high button shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision...