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...FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND- Van Wyck Brooks-Button...
...Dictator, noting a button off his Bolshevik caller's shirt, pointed out the deficiency with bantering reproof: "So, Comrade, you call yourself a cultured man!" Cracked back the Soviet journalist, according to his story: "It is easier to buy a tractor in Russia than to buy a button...
Suddenly there was a shocking pause as before 10,000 people Father Coughlin literally unfrocked himself. Stepping back from the microphones, he peeled off his black coat, ripped off his Roman collar, plucked out the collar button fastening his neckband. Back to the rostrum, a chunky man in dark pants and open shirt, he leaped to roar: "As far as the National Union is concerned, no candidate which is endorsed for Congress can campaign, go electioneering for, or support the great betrayer and liar, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...JOHN - Olaf Stapledon - Button...
...store was still abuilding and may not open until next January. Keedoozle stores will be run by electricity. All articles for sale will be displayed behind glass. To purchase, the customer will insert a key in a hole in the showcase beside the sample article, press a button. In the stockroom the proper article will drop on a conveyor belt leading to the cashier's desk. Simultaneously the purchase price is recorded on an adding machine. After all purchases are made, the customer sticks his key into the adding machine, gets his bill. Using another key, the cashier releases...