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Word: buttons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter girl in a Chock Full o' Nuts shop in lower Manhattan, a chicken cleaner on Long Island ("I used to have to take out the guts and everything, but I still like chicken"), an elevator operator in the midtown Dixie Hotel, a packer in a button factory, a mechanic in a machine shop ("It was puttin' screws in somethin', I don't remember what"). Any time work interfered with tennis, she quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...interviewed Kim Novak one time but, unfortunately, didn't know about that last-minute button routine. The only thing Photographer Clayton Knipper and I could get her to take off was her shoes. Here's the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...they left the turnstiles, the delegates were set upon immediately by bevies of bosomy beauties wearing "Garcia for President" sashes over their décolletage. "Ah," said one red-eyed delegate, "I see the day shift has taken over." Garcia opponents complained that the Garcia buttons pinned on delegates' lapels often had 10-peso bills under the button. The free sandwiches, similarly equipped, came to be known as "peso sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Here Comes Charley | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...front of "G" entry, two imposing preppy types were talking to a pair of Summer School lovelies. One of the males was unmistakeably a Princeton. He wore the traditional dark gray shetland sweater, button-down shirt, English-style gray flannels and cordovans. The other person was attired in white varsity-letter sweater, turned inside out, of course, freshly pressed khakis, white athletic socks, saddle shoes and crew-cut. "Probably a Yale," thought...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Little Girl, Big Voice | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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