Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston's salary ($26,000). Odds are that an inside war horse will get the job and try to swallow Committeeman Lee's boast that "we've got one hell of a school system"-a statement that many critics dryly regard as right on the button...
...League look must be erased. "Ivy League" refers to a bastardized version of the natural shoulder model, first produced on a mass scale about 1938. Prior to that time, only Brooks Brothers and J. Press promoted the natural shoulder. These stores derived the Ivy look from the five button suits with narrow lapels worn by fashionable late Victorians in the 1890's. Since 1950, the natural shoulder model has changed little with the exception of narrower lapels, shorter coats, and slimmer trousers...
...Macmillan, 64, after bagging a paltry 28 on the first day of his shoot on the moors of Yorkshire. A jinx? Unlikely, even though the P.M. had changed his hunting suit for the first time in 36 years. The old coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, had given out. But even the wiliest grouse could not have detected the change. The new coat-and-knickerbockers, complete with matching cap and four-button spats, were nearly identical to the rig he bought in 1927. "I believe that it will certainly last my lifetime," said Mac conservatively...
Forget the Kids. They told marchers to leave their children at home, strongly suggested that each marcher buy a 250 button, displaying a black hand clasping a white hand and wear it on parade. They arranged for 292 outdoor toilets, 21 portable water fountains, 22 first-aid stations manned by 40 doctors and 80 nurses to be scattered under the monument and along the route of the march...
...elected committee of twelve, now chaired by J.N.S. Ridgers, a specialist in deep-sea towing risks. The underwriting syndicates embrace 5,316 moneyed members-double the total in 1945-who collectively put up pieces of their personal fortunes and are liable for losses down to their last collar button. Membership is prestigious and highly prized. Among the current insiders are four Cabinet ministers (Hailsham, Maudling, Sandys, Thorneycroft), 52 M.P.s (predominantly Tory), Tycoons Charles Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson, Actor Kenneth More and five dukes, eight marquesses, 39 earls, 90 knights and 113 baronets...