Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size by a magic ring, sound tiny, a 50-ft. length of garden hose was rigged up through which an actor's voice was piped into a button mike after going through a standard mike and a mixer...
...Fodor. Emil Maass, my former assistant, an Austro-American, who has long posed as an anti-Nazi, struts in, stops before the table. 'Well, meine Damen und Herren,' he smirks 'it was about time.' And he turns over his coat lapel, unpins his hidden Swastika button, and repins it on the outside. . . . Two or three women shriek: 'Shame!' at him. Major Goldschmidt, Legitimist, Catholic, but half Jewish, who has been sitting quietly at the table, rises. 'I will go home and get my revolver,' he says...
...Herr Doktors Rohrbach and Naumann. In Syria today is a direct human link between the Drang dreams of Hitler and Hohenzollern. He is Baron Max von Oppenheim, 81, who has been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace stuffed with nightmarish, colossal statuary carved by the Subaraeans, a people flourishing around 3500 B.C. Off & on, the digging continued for more than...
...Button-eyed, bewhiskered, low-slung Scottie Fala, First Dog of the Land, was named first president of Barkers for Britain...
...HARRY BUTTON...