Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society meets for the annual Spring Farewell Brawl. Extraordinary guests at this evening's clandestine meeting will include Julius Van Duerk, inventive genius responsible for the radically new nine-hole button guaranteed to stay on and frustrate all unemployed tailors. Music will be supplied by the Chicago Pianos, Inc., and Mr. John Walker, local toastmaster, has been invited to attend. Local Psychiatrist's Union 314 has been supplied with all further particulars...
...combat; death by accident had accounted for more than 34,000; number missing and lost by enemy capture: 56,000. By far the largest number of separations were honorable discharges, which have been given to 903,000. For them the War Department has issued a small gold-plated lapel button depicting an eagle flapping its wings...
Those Brass-Button Queens...
Those seagoing bellhops, those brass-button queens...
...tread water, take off your pants or jacket, tie a knot in the legs or sleeves, button them up and swing them through the air so that the arms and legs fill with air. Then twist the open ends so that the air stays in and you have a life preserver...