Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average of four strokes per hole. The figure 4 is a magic one in golf, but never so magic for Jones as this year at Merion where for him it is the big number on the title he wants to win. Could he press a button on himself that would put him "down-in-four" at each & every hole, Champion Jones's 1930 record might well be made quadrilateral by acclaim. Straining in mind even more than body, tightlipped, his good-humored smile and easy Georgia drawl in check for the tremendous occasion, Jones will be trying for such...
Jeanne Lanvin-Again Greek and Egyptian evening dresses, leg o' mutton sleeves and rudimentary bustles. Whole dresses of ribbon and chenille on net. Intricate sleeves, much button trimming. Coats flared from the shoulder rather than belted...
...AMOUR OR THE ART OF LOVE-Paul Geraldy-Button ($1). A realistic Frenchman, Author Géraldy here lectures on what most Anglo-Saxons would call profane love. But he titillates no libidinous itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more...
...PATRIOT'S PROGRESS?Henry Wil-liamson?Button...
...each one a miniature novel packed with swift action and suspense. In the title story a man in the vestibule of a through express looks casually at his watch, and from that slender clue the police, build up a case which hangs a murderer. Another of the stories, "The Button and the Bank Note", explains how Detective Sergeant Hubbertson solved a murder which had puzzled the London police because he happened to sit next to a nervous young man in a tea shop...