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Word: buttons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Only one issue was at stake when some 2,000,000 button-eyed Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect a President: By how big a majority would they return frail, dapper little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina to office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Bedroom Campaign | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Party will hold a meeting on the steps of the Widener Library at 8 o'clock sharp this evening to celebrate today's great victory. The Great Panjandrum from New York, New York, with the little red button on top, will preside at tonight's gathering. It is hoped that all active members will be able to be present at the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michael Mullins | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...floor under his desk is a button which makes the Venetian blinds go up or down. Reuben Fleet enjoys working it. It startles visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...simply evah so swank," gushed Gurdon Wattles, more seigne than ever in a six-button flowered damask coat with kerchief to match, at a pre-Sheridan punch yesterday in honor of the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nannie Sheridan To Visit Harvard Soon | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

...Hulking, button-eyed Big Bill Hutcheson has ruled the carpenters for 20-odd years. He has fought fellow chieftains in bitter internecine wars. The case which was taken to Supreme Court was a quarrel over whether his carpenters or Brother Harvey Brown's machinists should install machinery in Anheuser-Busch's brewery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Holdup Men of Labor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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