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More troublesome buttons than most men has Dean Inge. As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat. His waistcoat-apron buttons down the side. His legs must be encased in gaiters which button all the way up, ending well above the knee...
...Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
Last week U. S. householders rethumbed their atlases, relocated the bottom button of the Caribbean. In Willemstad Harbor, Curaçao, a U. S. ship had been captured, Curacao's Dutch Governor had been kidnaped...
...going to talk to you," said he, "on the necessity of being a snob ... a gentleman, belonging to the ruling class. You have got to take the rule away from the bootlegger, the politician and the man who came up from one suspender button. . . . Put on a front. One of the reasons for Harvard's greatness is that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never argues, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation...
John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co., famed Manhattan publishers, was sued last week for $200,000 libel by the Book of the Month Club. Publisher Macrae has often charged that the club judges are influenced in their choice of books by the club business managers. The club judges: Editor-Critic Henry Seidel Canby, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Authoress Dorothy Canfield, Author Christopher Morley, Publicist William Allen White...