Word: buttoning
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...Emperor had led the people into war, both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited the coming of the Prussians...
Steadily and ruthlessly Button rises to power. He squeezes a onetime benefactor out of his steamship business. He imports, under heartless conditions, coolie labor to build western railways. Finally, when pressed close to the wall by Japanese mercantile competition on the Pacific, "Gold Eagle Guy" purloins a load of gold from one of his own ships, then sends it to sea to sink with all hands...
...Button's practice to call upon God as his witness when the honesty of his ventures is questioned. When his son accuses him of the murder of his seamen, Button automatically asks God to strike him dead if he is not innocent. According to Playwright Levy, God does, in the guise of the San Francisco earthquake...
Donald Oenslager's collapsing stage set for the last scene provides as realistic a theatrical catastrophe as has been seen in Manhattan since The Storm. J. Edward Bromberg, the fatherly physician of Men in White, revels in his role of Guy Button, plays that bravura part to the hilt and beyond...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...