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

...Battalions of buffoons, boy. Broadcasting button-bursting brusqueries. Bliths boobies. Bubbling with blarney. Banish bile. Beggar bulletins; Bandy badinage-" Newsmen knew that although Dexter Fellowes had been engaged in neither peak sneaking nor animated alliteration, indeed had not even been interviewed, he was grateful for notices given his Circus in the Herald Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peak Sneaking | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...Wahnfried during the period that followed was perpetrated the great Wagner lie, or such is the contention of Philip Button Hum and Waverly Lewis Root in a book published last week called The Truth about Wagner,* Their reference is to Mein Leben, perhaps the most elaborate autobiographical account left by an artist. Authors Hum and Root claim now that much of it is false, base their statements on a manuscript collection made by the late Hon. May Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Backtalk to Bayreuth | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...that walks in Puritan pants With just one crucial button gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pied Piper Sobering | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...done nothing else the Ileana-Alexander faux pas has boosted the sale of Alexander's mother's book: Daisy, Princess of Pless, by Herself (Button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Alexander Cancelled | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...Through its 529 pages prurient persons are searching feverishly for an allusion to the Count's effeminate practices, cause of the matchruptcy. Shrewd, the Button sales department led them in as deep as possible last week with this brand new blurb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Alexander Cancelled | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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