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Word: buttoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...seamen under bond to run their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Right Sort of Sentiment | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...somes Fiulay defeated Appel (B) 4 and 3: Faton defeated Button (B) by default: Arneld defeated Roberts (B) 3 and 4; Murphy defeated Moore (B) 7 and 6; Baldwin defeated Bailey (B) 5 and 4; Kim-brough defeated Green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN AND MINOR SPORTS | 5/23/1931 | See Source »

...only the fire laws that kept the audience from rolling in the aisles. Her best scene, however, was one in which she represented the theatre-going difficulties of the dowager with a propensity for losing things and numerous clothing to dangle in the faces of her neighbors. It was button-bursting, blatant pantomime in the very best manner...

Author: By H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYCOER | 5/12/1931 | See Source »

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Planning Season | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

When a motorist wants his car back he turns a key, presses a button or drops a coin, according to the parker's electric control arrangement. Thereupon the cage containing his car drops to street level, the car rolls out, much like a "hot dog" rolling out of a roasting machine in a roadside rotisserie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vertical Parking | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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