Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left of the lobby a wealth of medieval manuscripts fill a well lit, spacious Exhibition Room, so arranged as to illustrate the spread of printing across Europe. On the other side of the Lobby is the Reading Room, open only to students, but a push button at the librarian's desk can shut the bridge off from ineligibles. Behind the librarian a book elevator goes down to the stacks...
...citizens hear lesser matters, too, from five microphones slung above the House's black-leather settees-an occasional barroom pun, laments upon a Representative's hangover, etc. The Speaker of the House censors all speeches for military security with a push button at his right hand. Orators can tell how they are doing by watching the colored lights above his desk. Red means "fine." White means the mike is dead...
...Suspected Signers: Richard Henry Lee, Button Gwinnett, Benjamin Rush, among others...
Yung Wang, button-cute "Helen Hayes of China," was studying at Bryn Mawr. At 26, the prewar cinema star had an age of peril behind her. She had been caught by the Jap invasion of Hong Kong, slipped out disguised as a ragged halfwit, ultimately made a 40-day hairbreadth journey to the safety of Chungking. For two years she had entertained troops, lived in the front lines, traveled on foot with a force that moved so exclusively at night that it became known as "The Cat's Eye Army." But last week at Bryn Mawr she still looked...
...White, 78, long the late New York World's star crime reporter; in Syracuse, N.Y. He tracked down wife-killers, trapped oyster pirates, outwitted Yucatan slavers. From the remains of an unknown "anarchist" who bombed himself and Financier Russell Sage's office to pieces, White chose a button (detectives chose a head), identified the bomber as a Boston broker...