Search Details

Word: buttoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...last week a dark, ebullient man got off a train in Washington. Bubbling with energy and high spirits, he snapped his fingers at the rain coming down in sheets. Above his tan button shoes he wore a raincoat lined with rabbit fur. But His Excellency Oswaldo Aranha, new Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S., looked about at the sodden streets and buildings and exclaimed, "Maravilhoso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Vunderful! Vunderful! | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

When Franklin Roudybush spoke those words in Washington last week, he was simply echoing a general observation made by countless men and women since March 1933. But short, swart, button-eyed Mr. Roudybush differed from most of the others in that he proposed to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Servants | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...NAKED TRUTH AND ELEVEN OTHER STORIES?Luigi Pirandello?Button ($3). Collection of short and long tales by the Italian virtuoso of the theatre and the continental novelet, boxed and attractively bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 10, 1934 | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...another scene Emilie gets an olive-oil bath, accepts her underwear and dress silently as she looks with shoe-button eyes into the camera. Last sight of the quintuplets in this first section of their cinema biography shows them being popped into their incubators which resemble a row of chicken coops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Debut of Five | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

CARLYLE IN OLD AGE (1865-1881)-David Alec Wilson and David Wilson MacArthur-Button ($5). The sixth and final volume of Wilson's monumental biography of Thomas Carlyle, a lifetime's labor of love completed after Wilson's death last year from his notes and material by his nephew, MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

First | Previous | 812 | 813 | 814 | 815 | 816 | 817 | 818 | 819 | 820 | 821 | 822 | 823 | 824 | 825 | 826 | 827 | 828 | 829 | 830 | 831 | 832 | Next | Last