Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will quit his chief-of-staff duties on Feb. 15, acted as if he were beginning to enjoy the political rumpus. In Philadelphia last week to lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin's grave, he was stopped by a man who proudly showed him a "Draft Eisenhower" button in his lapel. The General said: "Take that thing off and throw it away." But he wore his widest grin as he said...
Both of them had crossed the Atlantic with European titles on their minds. In Prague's Winter Sports Stadium last week, Canada's 19-year-old Barbara Ann Scott had hers to defend, and New Jersey's 18-year-old Dick Button...
Last year U.S. Champion Dick Button had come within a blade of winning the men's world figure-skating championship at Stockholm. When the judges picked Hans Gerschweiler of Switzerland instead, Sweden's press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year...
...crowd self-consciously whistled its approval of Button's triumph. A Prague newspaper had carefully explained beforehand that U.S. crowds whistle when they like something instead of when they...
Getting more specific, the new journal concludes that "Norwegian moccasins is the latest report from Harvard," and "At Harvard they wear brilliant Argyle socks, or the plain color ribs." Button-down shirts and gray flannels get the expected not also as part of the typical Cambridge costume...