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Word: buttons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good luck, Mr. Button-bring us a piece of U.S. democracy." That's what 19-year-old freshman Dick Button read when he unwrapped the cellophane from oranges thrown at him in Prague last winter during the European men's figure skating championships. He didn't let the crowd down...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Dick Button Set to Defend Three Figure Skating Titles | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...beat, Switzerland's world champion Hans Gerschweiler, fashioned a thin lead in the compulsory school figures. But them came Button's bread and butter specialty--free skating. For five straight minutes, Dick exploded with his assortment of jumps and turns, and that was that. After beating Gerschweiler, it was easy for the Englewood, New Jersey, athlete to pocket the Olympic title at St. Moritz and then the world's championship at Davoz...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Dick Button Set to Defend Three Figure Skating Titles | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...tough. We have to please the publishers, the song pluggers, the singers, the disc jockeys and the public. But before we even get that far, we have to keep the musical director, the producer, the star and the director happy. If Betty Button's hairdresser doesn't like your stuff, brother, you're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Buttons & Bows | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Strictly speaking (an unusual habit for Vag), he had been an auditor for the past four years. He had taken a few notes, clipped some campaign speeches and studded his lapel with a button or two. But he had written no Congressmen, signed no petitions. For the most part, he had only sat and listened, a government auditor with his ear miles off the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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