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Well, it was here and it was good. Buttoning up his shirt, Vag glanced into the other room and saw that the two guys were dressed with definitely blue neckties peering out of their jackets. Nodding his head deliberately, he shuffled through the mass of stripes and polka-dots hanging behind his closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint...
Last week negotiations were stalled as the little buttons threatened a strike, which they hoped would shut the Exchange. If a strike came, President Schram said, brokers would run their own errands as they did on Aug. 14 during a strike-vote demonstration. Meanwhile, the small button leaders decided to get some bigger buttons to help them. They recommended that the independent union, which claims 5,000 members, from scrubwomen to tellers, affiliate with A.F.L...
...wife and two children. Then he sent the board a postcard announcing his death. Later he was seen on Central Avenue in a captain's uniform, smartly returning the salutes of passing enlisted men. At war's end he donned a veteran's button, began campaigning on G.I. political programs, and set his hopes on a City Council seat...
...reassuring note is the band, which remains undefeated in all competition. Resplendent in new three-button crimson jackets, the Soldiers Field "Symphony" spelled out an eight-yard "Welcome Rutgers," and the men from the banks of the Raritan proceeded to make themselves at home...
This was Central High in the days of the Charleston and Button Up Your Overcoat, the days of goldfish swallowing, cloche hats, Herbert Hoover's first presidential campaign, rolled stockings...