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«Edward VIII replaced his fly buttons with a zip, a revolutionary move; and his Fair Isle pullovers, shorts and Windsor knots were considered by some to foreshadow the end of Empire.»
Author: Angus McGill
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Keywords:
buttons,
Edward,
Edward G,
Edward VIII,
foreshadow,
isle,
knots,
shorts,
VIII,
zip,
zips,
zip up
«I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.»
Author: Bill Lee
(
pitcher)
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About:
Baseball
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Keywords:
beer,
beer belly,
bellied,
bellies,
belly,
bring back,
button,
buttoned,
buttoning,
buttons,
button up,
grass,
natural world,
nickel,
nickels,
on the button,
policy,
Rest of the world,
straighten,
straightened,
straightening,
straightens,
straighten out,
straighten up
«Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button»
«America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.»
«Not the buttons! Not my gumdrop buttons!»
«Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(
Film Director)
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About:
Television
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Keywords:
button,
buttons,
popped,
popping,
pops,
pop in,
pop up,
push,
push button,
toaster,
toasters
«God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done»
«A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb»
Author: W. H. Auden
(
Dramatist,
Editor,
Poet)
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About:
Poetry
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Keywords:
A-bomb,
bomb,
button,
buttoned,
buttoning,
buttons,
button up,
dragon,
on the button,
pushing,
push button,
releases,
slaying,
write about
«Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written»
«On fortune's cap we are not the very button.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
button,
buttoned,
buttoning,
buttons,
button up,
cap,
capped,
caps,
on the button