Word: buttonhooking
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...whole generations of window dummies were beginning to look selfconscious. The fashion world was engaged in a furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass...
...Fashioned Buttonhook. But the visiting salesmen and neighbors were some compensation. There was the local abortionist who came up when news of Author MacDonald's being " 'that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three...
With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
...Raleigh Prison, one John Wilson got an impression of his room's keyhole with chewing-gum, made a key to match out of a buttonhook, walked out at night...