Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago for a short story reading, button-eyed Writer Dorothy Parker, 65, astounded newsmen with a shimmering new hairdo that banished her longstanding trademark: languidly cascading dark bangs. Why so? "To tell the truth," confided Dorothy, "I had to give up bangs. Too dangerous. They caught fire when I lit a cigarette...
...nerve center of the library, at least as far as the casual observer is concerned, is the reading room on the first floor. It is locked and can only be entered if the curator at the front pushes a button which electronically releases the latch. Anyone presumably--student, faculty member, or accredited and interested scholar-may use the library material, regardless of its rarity...
Just a year ago, the work of Jules Feiffer, 29, a slight, introspective New York cartoonist, was appearing only (and without pay) in the Village Voice, a furrowed-brow Greenwich Village weekly. Now Cartoonist Feiffer is up to his clean, button-down collar in offers from publishers. One book of his cartoons is a bestseller (5,000 copies a week). He appears in the London Observer, dashes off magazine ads and features (Playboy, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), is discussing a screenplay for Director Stanley (Paths of Glory) Kubrick. His income tax for 1958 will be more than his entire income...
...great architect." ¶ Painter "Dr. Atl": "Orozco never did understand how to use color." A¶Architect Juan O'Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel. He wore it, he told me, because Roosevelt, Churchill and especially Stalin were mankind's greatest scourges, and because the Jews deserved to be exterminated." ¶Señora Orozco: "My husband was not only a good man who loved his family and thought of them constantly...
...Down. By tradition (and the essential limitations of design), fashion rings up changes in three areas: hemline, waist and shoulders. For 1959, hemlines and waists are lower. The trend is to nicely bloused tops, wider shoulderlines, sleeves that hover near the elbow level, big collars, plenty of pleats and button-downs-provided the top three buttons stay unbuttoned...