Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week negotiations were stalled as the little buttons threatened a strike, which they hoped would shut the Exchange. If a strike came, President Schram said, brokers would run their own errands as they did on Aug. 14 during a strike-vote demonstration. Meanwhile, the small button leaders decided to get some bigger buttons to help them. They recommended that the independent union, which claims 5,000 members, from scrubwomen to tellers, affiliate with A.F.L...
...wife and two children. Then he sent the board a postcard announcing his death. Later he was seen on Central Avenue in a captain's uniform, smartly returning the salutes of passing enlisted men. At war's end he donned a veteran's button, began campaigning on G.I. political programs, and set his hopes on a City Council seat...
...reassuring note is the band, which remains undefeated in all competition. Resplendent in new three-button crimson jackets, the Soldiers Field "Symphony" spelled out an eight-yard "Welcome Rutgers," and the men from the banks of the Raritan proceeded to make themselves at home...
This was Central High in the days of the Charleston and Button Up Your Overcoat, the days of goldfish swallowing, cloche hats, Herbert Hoover's first presidential campaign, rolled stockings...
Back in the days when the rubber truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven...