Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four breeds of dog currently regarded by U. S. dealers as "most fashionable" are all terriers: Scottish, Cairn, Sealyham, wire-haired fox. Most of the best-bred Scotties in the U. S. last fortnight foregathered on a terrace of Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Button's Long Island estate and permitted Dr. Clarence Cook Little, onetime president of the University of Michigan, now managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to compare their little black perfections in the Specialty Show of the Scottish Terrier Club, No. 1 event of the U. S. Scotty season. While...
...their vests, wily Prohibition Agent H. H. Porter and assistants last week deployed on Atlantic City's boardwalk and drank with oldtime beer-hounds. While the beer-hounds drank, Agent Porter and crew put their liquor into their hollow tubes, to which access was available through the top vest-button. When the tubes disgorged their contents, the agents thought the giant Drink would be slain in Atlantic City. They had seen every sign af drunkenness in 15 different bars visited...
...house. And in this Kakemono painting only a few words suffices to express one's feelings, thus in such a large letter, and sometime in "all fours" to make his one arm movement as free as possible. Because I go down on "all fours" to find collar button on a floor, please do not imagine I am writing this letter in "all fours'" too. GEORGE TOKIE OTAXI...
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...Vienna, Fritz Mimmler was collared by a policeman as he tried to throw himself out of a window. He explained that after he had five times tried to insert it in his shirt, his collar button had fallen on the floor and rolled out of sight...