Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classy speakeasy during prohibition. It has since evolved into a unique American showplace: a restaurant run in some ways more like a club than a public accommodation. There is no longer a trapdoor on the bar to trip drinks into a sewer at the press of a button, but logs still crackle in the fireplaces and a $750,000 collection of paintings, drawings and bronzes adorns the paneled walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others who flock there to see or be seen, attracted as much by the mystique as the cuisine...
...Panic Button...
After the cancellation, Pell said, "Graduate students thought they were going to be drafted and pressed the panic button. But when they saw that everyone was not called up, pressure to get into uniform and beat the draft was lessened...
...Alarm button will be installed on bells desks in the brick dormitories. They will ring in the resident's apartment and turn on a blue light over the outside doors to summon police. The lights were used until five or six years ago, Britton said, but were activated from the residents' apartments...
Still, the equipment can transcend its demanding and intimidating nature. In a way, it's beautiful: the ordered levers on the light board which make light and darkness respond to to touch of a finger, a button that makes part of the stage go up and down...