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Word: buttoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bronston (to her): And you button up your kisser. What do you think this joint is?the Ritz? You highbrow dames that go slumming give me a pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

READER, I MARRIED HIM?Anne Green ?Button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Pier 5, just north of San Francisco's clock-towered Ferry Building, is the semicircular "landing button" or artificial beach of Air Ferries Ltd., whose red Loening amphibians flash back and forth across the bay between San Francisco and Oakland every 20 min. On the button last week gathered local bigwigs to watch Dry-goodsman Marshal Hale and youthful James Rolph III, son of California's Governor (both directors of Air Ferries), slice a great cake on which stood one birthday candle. One would never have guessed from the exuberance of the affair that Air Ferries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Air Shuttle | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan, William Johnson, 40, drunk, fell under a subway train, had every button on his coat sliced off, was unhurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Almost every school child knows the Audubon Societies, has given 10? to become a junior member and receive a button with a bird on it. The Audubon State Societies, founded in 1886 by Forest & Stream (monthly magazine), were united into a national organization 29 years ago by the late William Butcher, first president. Under his guidance until 1910, the societies became the strongest, most respected conservation power in the U. S. Therefore when accusations and complaints were heard last week coming from members of the old bird-loving society itself, observers were surprised. The dissenters demanded that the organization have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Fight | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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