| 单词 | buttonhole |
| 例句 | When Aunt Anne jerked him out, a piece of string connecting a buttonhole in his shirt with a buttonhole in the front of his trousers suddenly broke. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when the milk was about to boil. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z June finished cleaning the stitches herself; it was distasteful to her, I could tell by the way she held her mouth, how it drew into a tight buttonhole. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At dawn, she rose and began cutting buttonholes and adding buttons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The judge agreed, and for a moment Hale personally buttonholed Burkhart in the courtroom, the plot unfolding this time right in front of White. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “So the poor knight is to be left sticking in the hedge, is he?” asked Mr. Brooke, still watching the river, and playing with the wild rose in his buttonhole. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Tristran reached up to the buttonhole of his jerkin and felt it there, as cold and perfect as it had been through all his journeyings. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Only the shirt beneath it was black, and he had a black feather in his buttonhole. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I was thanking my stars that I’d learned to make nice buttonholes, when the parlor door opened and shut, and someone began to hum, Kennst Du Das Land, like a big bumblebee. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He buttonholed a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Their faces were blackened with soot, and each of the three wore a red rooster’s feather in his buttonhole. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And strangers who followed him about the streets and buttonholed him for unexplainable reasons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He wore a black suit that stretched only far enough across his vast belly for one button to connect with its buttonhole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Only Basta wore a snow-white shirt, just as Dustfinger had said, with a red flower in the buttonhole of his jacket, a red flower like a warning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Above it there was a small buttonhole, and in the buttonhole he placed the snowdrop, the glass flower that his father had given him as a luck token when he had left Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I notice that his shirt’s buttons are in the wrong buttonholes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The old man wore a pair of pin-striped trousers and a morning coat with a flower in the buttonhole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The surgery had been to remove the “buttonhole” on his neck. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The Italian would arrive at dusk, with a gardenia in his buttonhole, and he would translate Petrarch's sonnets for Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z On this occasion he buttonholed me to talk about the guided Everest expedition he was planning: I should come along, he cajoled, and write an article about the climb for Outside. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z With shaking hands, I threaded the needle and figured out how to stab it through the buttonhole, but it came right out the other side. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Cantor and I took flowers over to the groom and his best man to put in their buttonholes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Only a few weeks previously, Weaver confided, Fosdick had been buttonholed at a benefit dinner by Dave Hennen Morris, a wealthy former ambassador to Belgium and a board member of the Research Corporation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was wearing a flower that resembled an oversized artichoke in his buttonhole. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A reporter from United Press buttonholed Al Ulbrickson on the way into the shell house and asked him what he thought of his boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was a rose in his buttonhole, and the tip of his handkerchief, folded into a triangle, peeped out of his breast pocket. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She removed one of the cloth flowers from her bouquet and twisted it into the top buttonhole of his green suit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I slipped my watch chain through my waistcoat buttonhole and straightened the fob, a Romanian silver leu whose details were worn to shadows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid tugged at the first shirt for half an hour, and she folded it crooked, the buttonholes not lined up with the buttons at all. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were suddenly having difficulty getting the buttons of his shirt through the buttonholes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Yet any blackguard He was lying beside the box under the window bellowing that could drive up in a limousine with a flower in his buttonhole. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When he got back ashore, he walked up to a reporter at the shell house, buttonholed him, and rendered a startling verdict: “Tom Bolles has a fine rough-water boat,” he said quietly but forcefully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I nodded then stuck the stem of the gardenia in the open buttonhole, where it flopped in the wide space between my soon-to-be breasts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The “buttonhole” is what the doctors put inside Auggie when he was born to allow him to breathe. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He nudged a slew of tiny shimmering wires aside, inserting a buttonhole camera in the space. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Twirling it between his fingers for a moment, he tucked it into the top buttonhole of his shirt. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His brown hair is tousled, his shirt buttons in the wrong buttonholes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z We made sweat lodges out of broken branches dug back into the earth, covered over with our shirts tied together at the buttonholes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The man took off his ring and pocket watch, freeing the gold chain from his buttonhole. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He straightened his shoulders, placed the crystal snowdrop in the top buttonhole of his coat, now undone. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The boy at the desk was dressed in a creamy velvet suit, a white rose in his buttonhole. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In anticipation of victory, he had broken his strict mourning and placed a red rose in the buttonhole of his lapel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The video was taken earlier this year over a seven-week period by an undercover investigator using a buttonhole camera, said Matt Rice, director of investigations at Mercy for Animals. Forget Gaga; Indonesia wild for own raunchy shows 2012-05-30T13:48:00Z His performance at times gets cloying and pushy, like an overeager canvasser buttonholing you for votes. Review: Abzug and Fierstein, on the Same Ticket in ‘Bella Bella’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Her mother, Ruth White, said that when Lauren was younger — part of a blended family with six children in Atlanta — she kept journals, read whatever she wanted, and had a habit of buttonholing adults. Lauren Myracle, Calling It As She Sees It 2012-12-28T20:19:26Z He dresses as if constantly expecting to be buttonholed into a lawn-bowling match. Ethan Hawke’s Life-Changing Music Lesson 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A combination of money-grubbing vulgarity and tremendous, pretentious refinement, Henry is the living and breathing embodiment of a social type my father used to describe as "carnation in the buttonhole, no underwear." "The Extra Man": Kevin Kline's magnificent oddness 2010-07-28T00:30:00Z This time, the National utterly refuses to buttonhole listeners; the music calmly awaits attention, but amply repays it. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z They are prominent among a select band of standups, who – unlike the more conversational comics who dominate the industry – aren't stumped when the public buttonhole them and demand: "Tell us a joke." Tim Vine: Master of the mini-joke 2011-01-17T21:44:02Z “Keith defined the industry he covered,” wrote Mr. Murdoch, whom Mr. Kelly in fact was known to buttonhole boldly in elevators and shake down for information like anyone else. Ta-Ta to ‘Teetering Tabloids’: Keith Kelly Signs Off 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z There, he was buttonholed by people wanting to talk about their portfolios and the soaring NFT market. Flo Rida, LL Cool J and Star Jones at the Angel Ball in the Hamptons 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z They were on their way to a cancer-treatment center one day, when a neighbor, Larry, buttonholed her clearly ill father but talked only about himself. Readers Go Electric Over Dylan’s Nobel 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z They can’t buttonhole a politician at an event and demand answers to their specific concerns; they can’t protest at a rally. Perspective | Bernie and Biden have been courting voters virtually, and it’s not going well 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z He buttonholes Bennedith and tells her a story about the time he was wronged by an evil nun with a maimed hand. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Gone were the theatrical hopefuls eagerly buttonholing visitors, and, with them, the barrage of fliers that can quickly weigh down a knapsack. A Quiet Summer at Edinburgh’s Festivals 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In the house I was buttonholed by a drunk German with loose false teeth who was showing off his English on me; his friend was interested in modern art, though this is banned in Germany. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z The property’s original owner, the lawyer Samuel Untermyer, practiced brutal tactics in the courtroom while keeping his suit buttonholes stocked with fragrant orchids from his greenhouses. These Books Move Heaven and Earth 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z When I buttonholed the assistant box office manager later, he revealed that the online system can’t process cancellations. Lots to see and hear on Norwegian’s megaship, but good luck booking a restaurant 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But “song” isn’t right; it’s more like misandrist slam poetry, a spoken-word diatribe, addressed to an “office lady,” that sends up every cocksure sleaze who’s ever buttonholed a woman: A Punk Band That Knows “The Bar Is Low” for Straight White Men 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z “The suits were good, but they wouldn’t do this one buttonhole that we needed. They said it takes too much time. So we left.” A Men’s Label, Born on Instagram 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Greenaway, of course, is still at it; our man Xan Brooks buttonholed him at the Rome film festival last week, where his latest, Goltzius and the Pelican Company, has just premiered. Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill 2012-11-16T10:00:00Z Only one character in “Sign” identifies as Black, which surprised white critics who had buttonholed Hansberry as a writer devoted to Black characters. Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z We learn, among other things, that Rubinstein once buttonholed Picasso, showing up at his home on the French Riviera and insisting upon a portrait sitting. Celebrating Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The acting in immersive theatre often goes on unremarked, and often for good reason: here it is uniformly terrific: everyone has a ghastly buttonholing precision. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z Ware found herself increasingly buttonholed by fans who said that "Wildest Moments" perfectly captured their relationship with their best friend or boyfriend or ex. Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z The world will shrink to the dimensions of a bodice or a buttonhole, a collar or a cuff. Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:31Z One difference between the Black Keys and previous generations of blues-rockers is an emphasis on songs, not guitar solos, although Mr. Auerbach can unleash a brazen, buttonholing lead line when he chooses to. Music Review: Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys at Madison Square Garden 2012-03-13T22:19:08Z Dancing a tango with his shabby blanket and buttonholing the audience with immense charm, he refuses to lie down and go quietly. Silent – review 2012-06-07T13:46:34Z “Out of Control,” which in 1979 had jabbing, buttonholing electric guitar and bass lines, has become a cozy, cheerfully strummed self-affirmation, very much in control. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Anthony Minghella told me how as a terrified student he was buttonholed by Alan, who said: "Listen, son, you are a writer, don't even think about doing anything else." Appreciations: Alan Plater obituary 2010-06-27T17:14:00Z There’s a machine for buttonholes, they marveled, and one for applying labels. Where Hepburn Might Shop 2010-11-18T05:10:00Z Yeah, yeah, lunch,” Mr. Irwin said and continued to buttonhole the specialist for another 20 minutes. Robert Irwin’s Big Visions, Barely Seen 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z With no director cited, the show buttonholes spectators as adjunct therapists or confidants, the sort of pals you might share a boozy evening with at the pub. Ripping Up the Rule Book in ‘An Octoroon,’ and Making a Patchwork of ‘Woyzeck’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Even the O’Reilly staffers, when buttonholed by information-starved staffers on other shows, protested that they were as much in the dark as everyone else. I took Fox News’ sexual harassment class 2013-06-04T11:45:00Z After my interview with Wallace was published, I was buttonholed by one late-twenties writer after another and grilled about the novelist’s authenticity. David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Bye tells a story about being buttonholed at last year's fringe by a producer asking him for his TV ideas. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z If you find yourself buttonholed by a well-heeled but heavy-lidded person, prepare for a slightly defensive diatribe called “Why I Have Recently Purchased a $60,000 Mattress.” The Search for a Night?s Rest 2012-03-16T23:48:40Z When George buttonholed you, beaming and exclaiming "You've GOT to hear this!," you knew your next hour was spoken for. Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z People are seen through two-way mirrors, captured by buttonhole cameras and cameras that see in the dark. Art review: Exposed at Tate Modern 2010-05-27T15:56:00Z When Leon Kirchner’s first string quartet was unveiled in 1950, a Hungarian violinist buttonholed its young American composer. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A letter to the editor of The Times shortly after the proclamation, signed More Justice, from Cooperstown, N.Y., facetiously suggested dates for further commemorations, along with corresponding buttonhole flowers. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Benioff related how a 6-foot-7 Dutch Ultimate Championship fighter once buttonholed him at a party and spouted off his own theories as to what he thought would happen in the series. 'Game of Thrones' showrunners reveal they're masters of saying nothing 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Let’s see, who can I buttonhole and force to look at the 300 vacation photos I shot with my iPhone? How about Genzlinger? He’s straggling.” Review: Watch Nat Geo Dine on Wildebeests for Three Hours 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Another essay has him getting buttonholed by a righteous white man at a party who insists that Walker ought to feel oppressed. ‘How to Make a Slave’ Offers Restless, Brilliant Thoughts About Race 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Even in interviews, Arnhold educates, buttonholes, lobbies for her cause — graciously but inexorably. Repeat After Her: There Is No Dance Without Dance Education 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z He studied drawing, hand sewing and draping, ultimately sewing 100 buttonholes and remaking a Balenciaga sheath dress from scratch. Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The most famous image of Cornwell shows him in a top hat and buttonhole striding confidently through a top-class English crowd, with a look of knowing concentration mixed with an offhand breeziness. How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The basic method is to thread a needle and sew through the fabric and the buttonholes over and over until it is attached. Forget fast fashion! Six ways to bring clothes back to life – from darning to stain removal 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z But she buttonholed other senators for input, and wrote a ban on 19 weapons and on ammunition clips that held more than 10 bullets. Dianne Feinstein, the first woman in the Senate from California, has died 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z At the lighting ceremony, a non-Jewish man buttonholed the rabbi to thank him for procuring badly needed heart medicine for him during a spate of intense bombardment. 'In darkness we find light': As missiles fall, Jews in Ukraine mark Rosh Hashana 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z As Mr. Kennedy traveled the country giving speeches, he has said, mothers of intellectually disabled children began buttonholing him, pressing him to investigate vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Soon to Announce White House Run, Sows Doubts About Vaccines 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Barrett described him as a “one-man conscience operation,” writing books and “buttonholing … cajoling … pushing” for the establishment of the permanent legal institution that, in 1998, became the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z They’ve had mixed success buttonholing people on the street to pose. Perspective | Store windows along Wisconsin Avenue showcase art with a message 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Resident Caroline Aguirre, a retired parole agent, said she buttonholed one courier trying to deliver a bag marked with the name James on it and explained the order wasn’t for her. A tasty L.A. mystery: Unwanted Uber Eats food deliveries vex Highland Park neighborhood 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z "Since I was born I have never experienced stable power supply. We call ourselves the giant of Africa but we can't fix electricity," complains Mr Adah as he works on a buttonhole. Nigeria election 2023: The oil land with no electricity 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z All week he darted around the House floor, buttonholed defectors, hustled to talk to top McCarthy advisers and then ducked into at least a dozen closed-door meetings. Analysis | Closest of friends, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan split over Kevin McCarthy 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z For days as the historic floor fight played out, Mr. McCarthy had remained in his seat and dispatched allies to buttonhole the remaining holdouts privately. In Speaker Fight’s Final Hours, Arm-Twisting, Flaring Tempers and Calls from Trump 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Camilla appeared to take a sprig of flowers and put it in her buttonhole, which can be seen in the Christmas card photograph. King Charles and Camilla's Christmas card shows pair at Highland Games 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z She cited the color, “unusual fly design with extra side buttonholes” and the non-denim fabric that’s lighter weight “than cloth used for its earliest riveted clothing.” Pricey pants from 1857 go for $114k, raise Levi’s questions 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z David Whelan said his brother must work at least eight hours a day, six days a week, on menial tasks like making buttonholes, which has caused him repetitive strain injury. Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z On the floor, several GOP senators who had just sat through arguments about why they must acquit Trump still weren’t sure if they agreed and started buttonholing McConnell’s staff. ‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell’s decision not to convict Trump 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z She bounced around from L.A. factory to L.A. factory, avoiding wage theft and dodging sweatshops, before finally finding a job as a buttonhole operator on a production line, earning a decent wage. Shout out to all the hands that touched a Nancy Stella Soto 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z These are some of the issues the kids wrote on posters at the forum and buttonholed the candidates on at the reception. Perspective | A generation of kids betrayed by their adult leaders is fed up 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z In one city in the region, Denain, a woman buttonholed him on a campaign stop with strong criticism about his presidency, his handling of the pandemic and schools. A Problem for Macron in France’s Election: ‘The Hatred He Arouses’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z This opens the floor to everyone who has ideas — not just those with the loudest voices or the chutzpah to buttonhole leaders in passing to pitch their ideas. Perspective | 5 misconceptions about remote work, debunked 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z They have lunches, meet at conferences, buttonhole departmental women visitors, set up private Facebook pages and Slack channels, and are all over Twitter. Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z And he added a personal touch to the museum: Among its collection was a coat with a buttonhole camera that he had worn while working under cover in Greece and Cyprus. Peter Earnest, C.I.A. Veteran Who Ran a Spy Museum, Dies at 88 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z At 42, Méndez has mastered advanced stitches like the closed buttonhole and rococo. Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Mine workers are likely to be more persuasive to Mr. Manchin than the progressive activists who kayaked to his houseboat at a Washington marina to harangue him or the colleagues buttonholing him at Senate votes. Manchin’s Choice on Build Back Better: Mine Workers or Mine Owners 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z The quality can range from “fine” to “forgot to add buttonholes,” but the bigger risk in ordering from one of theses sellers now is the shipping times. Tips for holiday shopping online even when there’s a supply chain crisis 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Throughout the spring, at his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, the former president buttonholed visitors about what was unfolding in Arizona, recounting his grievances with the 2020 election over steak and lobster. After Jan. 6, threats and disinformation take hold across the U.S. But even after Mr. Biden and members of his cabinet worked the phones and Ms. Pelosi and her team spent much of Thursday buttonholing lawmakers on the House floor, the votes proved elusive. House Democrats Hunt for Votes to Pass Biden’s Domestic Agenda 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Netanyahu continued the efforts until the last moment, according to reports from the chamber, buttonholing individual members overnight as the voting continued on more than 700 individual provisions. Israel staves off new elections by approving first budget in three years 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But even here in the upscale suburbs, Republican rallygoers I buttonholed overwhelmingly accepted the “big lie” about the 2020 election and expected fraud in the gubernatorial election, too. Opinion | Youngkin banishes Trump, but he can’t clean the stench of Trumpism 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Desperate for resolution, the family banded together with others to form the National League of POW/MIA Families, lobbying politicians and buttonholing generals in the halls of the Capitol to demand action. A U.S. Military First: The War in Afghanistan Ended With Zero M.I.A.s 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Behind the scenes, she buttonholed lawmakers in both parties, picking up votes as she made her case. Barbara Lee’s Long Quest to Curb Presidential War Powers Faces a New Test 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z A lawmaker who referred to insurrectionists as tourists refused to shake his hand after the officer buttonholed him in an elevator. ‘Some are still suffering’: Months after Capitol riot, police who fought the mob contend with physical, psychological pain 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Seeing the minister walk back in, Oumar buttonholed her and asked what would become of their proposals. France’s Ideals Are a Harder Sell Among Diverse Youth 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Statuary Hall — usually the loud and unruly gathering place for crowds of journalists who buttonhole lawmakers after the speech for instant reactions — will be empty and silent this year. In a Locked-Down Capitol, Biden Will Address a Sparse Audience 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Karla: Ordinarily the idea of randomly buttonholing strangers for contrived social encounters strikes me as awkward and off-putting. Perspective | Worried about meeting coworkers at your new all-remote job? Here are some tips. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Unlike typical sessions, lobbyists, activists and members of the public can’t testify in front of committees in-person, buttonhole lawmakers in the hallways or wait outside their offices. Push to reopen statehouse grows as staff offered vaccines 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It was impossible to build a relationship at the bedside or buttonhole doctors on their rounds, the way they could have in non-pandemic times. Dying on the waitlist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z They can’t buttonhole one another on the chamber floors to discuss bills and negotiate. Legislators return with new bills to help Californians hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Donors and others seeking access appear routinely at his private clubs in Florida and New Jersey, where they have buttonholed the president on the patio or golf course. How Trump abandoned his pledge to ‘drain the swamp’ 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Another time, the ambassador of Kosovo wanted to remind Trump of a summit request, and Ballard was able to buttonhole Trump at his club. The swamp that Trump built 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z “He was a big, erect, personable figure dressed in a blue suit and a red carnation in his buttonhole.” No president or nominee ever spoke at a convention. Then FDR broke the rules. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z I buttonholed one of the workers and asked whether he’d seen a white squirrel since construction began. Perspective | As Franklin Square is remade, the cry goes out: Timber! 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump reversed course once the state’s congressional delegation buttonholed him on the issue, but Democrats still have ready-made material on an issue dear to the heart of many Michiganders. In Seeking to Hold Michigan, Trump Can Be His Own Worst Enemy 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He then buttonholed a few Los Angeles police officers, peppering them with questions about why they were taking people’s temperatures. This federal judge is risking his life to save homeless people from the coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and is known as "Lobby day" in Virginia politics as advocates for a number of causes use the holiday to try and buttonhole lawmakers. Trump says Second Amendment is 'under very serious attack' in Virginia ahead of gun-rights rally 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Rockefeller buttonholed the president at the White House. How Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S. 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z T-shirt-wearing adherents from different leftist groups buttonholed one another and everyone else, hoping for new recruits to the cause. With Israel in Limbo, Benny Gantz Vows to Seek a ‘Peace Within’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Then a friend puts a red rose in the buttonhole of his tuxedo and walks out to the altar of a crowded church. A Filmmaker Bared His Soul. It Ruined His Life. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He was no expert, so instead of testing theories, he buttonholed as many people from as many walks of life as possible. How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Over footage of buttonhole cameras, a narrator promised clients “the best high-tech surveillance equipment.” The Black Cube Chronicles: The Private Investigators 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z As he visited a prison in Oklahoma, he says Chism “buttonholed” him – that is, came up to him and told him about her son, insisting he needed to speak to him. Out of prison after 23 years, thanks to his mother and a documentary 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Macron buttonholed lawmakers, trying to woo them one by one. Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z But for the rest of my life, I will squirm at the memory of those conversations, the unearned kindness of the people I buttonholed, essentially demanding their permission and benediction. Perspective | Is it ok for a white author to write black characters? I’m trying. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z But when Gomez buttonholed the presidential hopeful in a Fresno parking lot to vent about poverty and contaminated water in the San Joaquin Valley, the two men quickly bonded over a mutual sense of neglect. California’s long-overlooked Central Valley holds new allure for 2020 candidates 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Kail got very good, she says, at buttonholing influential people during the coffee breaks of meetings. City with a female face: how modern Vienna was shaped by women 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In some state capitols, lobbyists are relegated to hanging around in corridors for a chance to buttonhole lawmakers. Vestige of the past, state House’s ‘lobbyist room’ vanishes 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In Mingorrubio, a cemetery worker with the weary and suspicious air of someone who’s been buttonholed by too many journalists watches a film crew set up a tripod. Franco’s shadow: reburial battle sees Spain confront its darkest days 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Later, one of the actors buttonholed the doctor. Perspective | Paging Dr. Freud: Remembering Rockville’s Chestnut Lodge 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The AP has previously reported that aides who accompany the president on trips to the club are always alert for club members and guests who like to buttonhole the president. Trump donor who once owned prostitution case day spa offered access to president 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z He adds that the work is still in its infancy, but after the talks, Goldenfeld buttonholed Puckett and his team to talk about a possible collaboration. How a school of fish is like a rubber band 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z UK government ministers are also in town and likely to be buttonholed by anxious business chiefs -- as several push the Brexit panic button. Davos 2019: Mental health in focus; Abe, Merkel and Qishan speak - live 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Staff who travel with the president are on high alert for members and guests who try to buttonhole Trump, seeking influence and peddling oddball ideas. Trump heads for his comfort zone at ‘winter White House’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The figure is nearly $4 billion more than Pentagon leaders set aside for such programs and operations, compared to the $18.4 billion buttonholed for military intelligence in the previous fiscal year. Pentagon adding billions more into military intelligence programs 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z After a recent show at On the Boards, one local theatergoer buttonholed another, asking what he was excited to see in the near future. Everything you need to know about the hottest tickets in town: Seattle events for November 2018 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He subjects himself, his artistic collaborators and his viewers to disturbing experiments in surveillance; he makes us participants in art that is hectoring, aggressive, buttonholing and violent, and fills us with a sense of complicity. Bruce Nauman, the Artist’s Artist 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Early on Thursday the police closed off the hallway outside Ms. Collins’s office, preventing journalists from interviewing her, and protesters from buttonholing her. Singing, Chanting and Rage on Capitol Hill as Kavanaugh Vote Nears 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In March, he buttonholed President Trump at a St. Patrick’s Day luncheon to preserve funding for the Gateway rail tunnel project under the Hudson River. She’s Trying to Pull an Ocasio-Cortez. Her Target: Pete King. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z But the casual atmosphere also allows members to buttonhole the president to push him on pet issues. Trump’s summer: Do not call it a vacation 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z EPWORTH, Zimbabwe — As he buttonholed voters less than two days before Zimbabwe’s general election, the opposition candidate worked the crowd alone and on foot. As Zimbabwe Prepares to Vote, Robert Mugabe Resurfaces With a Message 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Key to McQueen's evolution was Central St. Martins art school in London, a city he knew inside out, from its gay bars to where the best buttonholes were made. Review: The documentary ‘McQueen’ captures both the designer's darkness and his astonishing ability to use it 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Late on Tuesday night, both bid teams patrolled the lobby bar of the Hotel Metropol to buttonhole delegates. North America to Host 2026 World Cup 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Varsha Sarveshwar, a junior at UC Berkeley, said her student government office coordinated at least 15 trips to Sacramento — with about 30 students each time — to attend committee hearings and buttonhole legislators. UC headed for big funding boost to ax tuition hike, enroll more students 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, he rallied leaders and employees of Louisiana’s safety-net hospitals to buttonhole lawmakers and press for tax votes, saying the facilities are threatened with cuts. Louisiana tax session negotiations kick off with tension 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z On Nov. 8, having heard the rumors of a possible presidential bid, Scavino buttonholed his old boss at Eric’s wedding and said, “When you run, I’m in.” The Man Behind the President’s Tweets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Another machine once used by Levi Strauss & Co. is used for hems; another for buttonholes, Echigoya said. These jeans look nice and old — exactly 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Bridges said the linen is from Savile Row fabric merchant Holland & Sherry; the buttonholes are handworked; and the shape is a fusion of those worn by Christian Dior and Cristóbal Balenciaga. FIDM's latest exhibition of movie costumes gives visitors behind-the-seams stories 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “You need your best suit, and a flower for that buttonhole thing.” As Kenya Takes Orwellian Turn, Government Goes After Journalists 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Another machine once used by Levi Strauss & Co. is used for hems; another for buttonholes, Mr. Echigoya said. A Craftsman’s Passion: American Jeans 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Now, buttonholed by her friends, she promised to investigate. Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Just Say No 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z She was the first to heavily push for legislation, buttonholing state senators and delegates with all the persistence — and none of the pay — of the professional lobbyists swarming Capitol Square. Dorothy McAuliffe put aside pomp as hard-lobbying Virginia first lady 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “And in Canada and the US, they became very good at buttonholing journalists and members of parliament. The Chinese government kind of freaked out.” The traditional Chinese dance troupe China doesn’t want you to see 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z A man’s status was measured in working buttonholes and pick stitching. Perspective | Paul Manafort’s wardrobe tells you all you need to know about power and style in the 1980s 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z “Years after he had retired, he buttonholed me at an event, wanting to know: ‘Were we committed to the journalism? Richard Pyle, accomplished AP reporter for 50 years, dies 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Merkel herself once buttonholed the governor of California to complain about the state’s strict emissions standards. As German Election Looms, Politicians Face Voters’ Wrath for Ties to Carmakers 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z By the look of it, the adult brain is primed to be buttonholed. A Baby Wails, and the Adult World Comes Running 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z At the back-to-school fair, she buttonholed an uninsured father who said he was moving to Memphis, telling him he might be eligible for a special enrollment period and pressing a phone number into his hand. In Tennessee, Promoting Enrollment in Tenuous Health Care Plans 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z At weekly meetings of all the city commissioners, Mr. Cooney said, he would buttonhole them and ask if they needed a good secretary — he had some available. In Case of Nuclear Attack, Don’t Forget the Groceries 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Mayor Virginia Raggi was also present, and ended the evening surrounded by a crowd of residents who took the opportunity to buttonhole her and share a litany of complaints. Putting ‘Don Giovanni’ on a truck and returning opera to its roots 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Less than six months after Bill de Blasio became mayor of New York City, a campaign donor buttonholed him at an event in Manhattan. The Mayor and the Restaurateur: How de Blasio Sought Help for an Early Donor 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Commissioner of Higher Education Joe Rallo buttonholed legislators in the House, asking them not to remove the money senators added for colleges. The Latest: Louisiana House budget offer panned by Senate 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Even as his condition worsened, however, he was leading the fight to extend health care benefits for emergency workers and survivors of the 9/11 attacks by buttonholing public officials in New York and Washington. Raymond J. Pfeifer, 9/11 Firefighter Who Sought Care for Survivors, Dies at 59 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z May buttonholed Trump on Thursday about keeping information from British investigations private. British authorities believe most involved in Manchester bombing are in custody 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z And he sped across Brussels to NATO, where British Prime Minister Theresa May, the leader of Washington’s closest ally, buttonholed him over intelligence leaks following Monday’s terrorist attack in Manchester, England. Trump chastises fellow NATO members, demands they meet payment obligations 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z So many journalists swarmed the Capitol on Wednesday trying to buttonhole lawmakers about Mr. Trump’s interactions with Mr. Comey that the Senate press gallery sent out a warning about “Senate hallway congestion.” Washington Is Abuzz With Surround Sound of Scandal 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I was sent by my editor at The Moscow Times to buttonhole Mr. Nazarbayev at a ribbon-cutting for a power plant in the country’s remote north, near the Russian border. Kazakh Capital, a Post-Soviet Creation, Is Growing Real Roots 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He described buttonholing Trump and Vice President Pence to make a case for building more aircraft carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding. Virginia governor lives it up on the national stage and hedges bets on his future 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Several days later, the king buttonholed Mr. Trump on the sidelines of the National Prayer Breakfast and made a similar case. Trump May Turn to Arab Allies for Help With Israeli-Palestinian Relations 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a white apron leans over the counter and puts a sprig of flowers in a buttonhole of his uniform. An American filmed the German army in WWI — until they became the enemy 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z “She was buttonholing a lot of the members of the transportation authority that are Democrats.” Free London trip at Redskins’ expense? Loudoun chairwoman says, ‘No, thanks.’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Under a scorching September sun, Lauren McCarthy and Anthony Fraijo were unflaggingly chipper as they buttonholed Arizona State University students with one question: “Are you happy with the two major parties?” The presidential race in Arizona was already tight. Then voters started noticing Gary Johnson. 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Keep your carnation buttonhole and your mortarboard, I thought. A Trip Back to Oxford—Minus the Homework 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Gabriel removes his tinted glasses and hangs them through his buttonhole. The ballad of Juan Gabriel 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The jacket appeared in every way modest, except for the buttonholes and the endless amounts of topstitching, which, for those in the know, show that a garment is handmade. The Suit That Couldn’t Be Copied 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z When I walked about the island with Schulte, he was buttonholed by one resident after another and asked a variation of “When are you going to start building a sea wall?” Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z New Yorkers are not shy about buttonholing their mayors with issues as granular as potholes on a specific avenue, noisy streetlights or their own schemes to improve city services. Why Trash Bags That Repel Rats Have the F.B.I. Sniffing Around in New York 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Working Buttonholes | Also known as “surgeon’s cuffs,” because they let 19th-century doctors roll up their jacket sleeves, working buttonholes used to be a sign of elite customization but are now more readily available on demand. The Faux-Bespoke Suit: A Buyer’s Guide 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Nowadays, it's traditional for Austrian MPs to wear a flower in their buttonholes at the opening of parliament, he explains. The beautiful flower with an ugly past - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z He then explained that the stitching around the buttonholes was very rough, and that this is such a basic mistake that it even has a name: the squashed bug. The Suit That Couldn’t Be Copied 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z With the camera rolling, O’Keefe and his team stood outside the lobby and buttonholed people, asking them if Soros was funding Polish street protests. James O’Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He buttonholed Apple CEO Tim Cook at Vanity Fair’s Academy Awards party, asking him to discuss the Georgia law, which Apple later criticized publicly. Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Has Kicked Off New Era of Corporate Social Activism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z He buttonholes his readers; he dazzles with paradox and provocation. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 10 – The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Elliot’s mother, the former Rebecca Rose, focused on buttons and buttonholes. Elliot Gant, Marketer of the Button-Down Shirt, Dies at 89 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Higher education leaders buttonholed lawmakers outside the House chamber, trying to get support for tax measures. Wednesday session deadline near with no tax deal reached yet 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z She went with him everywhere in Garden City and Holcomb, knocking on doors, buttonholing people in stores. Harper Lee driving force behind Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, two undecided voters are being buttonholed by Betty Crawford, the Clinton precinct captain. In This School Cafeteria Caucus, the Lunch Lady Still Rules 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Santorum walked in, pursued by several cameramen, and spotted Luntz, who he buttonholed for another extended whine session about everything wrong with the media and debates as gallery visitors quietly looked on. Contemplating oblivion with Santorum, 2016's saddest candidate 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Cox and more than a dozen N.R.A. lobbyists under him buttonholed Republican senators in a flurry of face-to-face meetings, calls and emails, officials said. N.R.A. Victories in Congress Grow With Chief Lobbyist’s Role 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Often, a man pops up in the Q&A, or buttonholes me afterwards to ask why feminism has to make men feel so unwelcome. Yes, there is one great contribution men can make to feminism: pick up a mop | Helen Lewis 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Two students buttonholed him, expressing interest in continuing their studies in the United States. A Microscope to Save the World 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the first five days of climate negotiations, interfaith activists came, fasted, talked to media, buttonholed leaders and prayed. Since science hasn't convinced leaders to act on climate, can power of faith do much better? 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z President Ulysses S. Grant is sometimes credited with coining the term "lobbyist" to refer to the men who sought his assistance by buttonholing him in the lobby of a hotel near the White House. Penalty against lobbying firm sends message to an industry unfamiliar with prosecution 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It was the melancholy half-Yemeni, half-British man who buttonholed me one afternoon and invited me to see the cemetery where most of his family was buried. Can a Trip Ever Be ‘Authentic’? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z They buttonholed customers, collecting email addresses and phone numbers. Calm Manner Has Ben Carson Rising in Polls 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z When Father Cashman ordered lunch on Tuesday, the deliveryman buttonholed him to talk about the pope. U.S. Church, in Pope Francis’ Afterglow, Sees Chance to Win Back Faithful 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Prior to the game, he desperately wanted a chance to speak with Manfred, even suggesting he may buttonhole him during the festivities. Pete Rose discusses reinstatement bid with Rob Manfred, will learn fate by end of 2015 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z An older Bhutanese gardener, Devi Bista, buttonholes the staff to ask for another garden plot. This City Turns Brown Into Green, Just as the Pope Wishes 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Lawmakers and lobbyists have returned to the Capitol for a final month of horse-trading and buttonholing. California Editorial Roundup 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Voters from Norcross's south New Jersey district flooded his office with phone calls and emails and buttonholed him in person. Obama's Democrats face intense pressure as they weigh Iran deal 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But Graham buttonholed senior commanders and persuaded the Pentagon to grant him waivers to its policy. Sen. Graham moved up in Air Force Reserve ranks despite light duties 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z There was a chance to wait and buttonhole him at a back exit. Phil Mickelson's lurking turns to fading at British Open 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Rose has never met Manfred, but he plans to buttonhole him in Cincinnati. Still banned from baseball, Pete Rose remains adored, in front of a long line 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Levine walked the floors of the Tennessee Capitol, testifying whenever he was allowed and buttonholing legislators to tell them his sister’s story. Murder, custody and justice: The making of a political candidate 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Because the Board of Public Works is responsible for maintaining the Peachoid, Fortner was buttonholed this winter by reporters asking whether the tower was being torn down. No need for alarm: South Carolina town's Peachoid tower is getting a face-lift, that's all 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Seinfeld had just made a deal to do a sitcom for NBC, and he buttonholed Mr. Letterman in the corner of the restaurant and asked him for advice. Prickly Innovator Counts Down to His Exit From Late Night 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Michael B. Froman, the trade representative, is known to prowl the tunnels underneath the Capitol to buttonhole skeptical Democrats. Obama Pushes Skeptical Legislators Hard on Pacific Trade Deal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z "We drove there without insignia. We took off all the buttonholes and stripes. We were told that we did not need them in field conditions." Special Report: Russian soldiers quit over Ukraine 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z He's so good he could argue a 5-pound chunk of bologna right through the smallest buttonhole on your lapel, and you wouldn't even taste it. No police accountability in shooting of WWII vet, 95 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z All the while, the Big Unit struggled to button his cream-colored jersey with “Hall of Fame” in red script, unable to line up the buttons with the correct buttonholes. 5 years later, Johnson, Martinez and Smoltz ‘old goats’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Once, he needed a crane to install an air-conditioning unit on the roof and finally had to buttonhole a senior Cuban official at an event before his request was approved. In Cuba, harassment of U.S. diplomats even extends to their pets. Will that now change? 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z There’s the direct approach, like checking with the doorman and buttonholing people who already live in the building. Researching Your Future Neighbors 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In downtown Portland, scruffy hipsters with clipboards buttonholed passers-by, registering voters and urging them to vote yes on Measure 91, while political consultants put the final touches on a $2 million ad barrage. For Marijuana, a Second Wave of Votes to Legalize 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z And there were the health-food obsessives who elaborately customized their orders and buttonholed him over ingredients. 30 Years of Anger From Waiting on Tables Boils Over in a Comedy Show 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z He ended up on a park bench in a Moscow suburb, buttonholing strangers and boasting of his former greatness. Putting Putin In His Place 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Members of Congress will scatter for August recess, as will many of the staffers who serve them and the lobbyists who buttonhole them. Latest research: Why everyone should take vacation Behar is well known to many in the crowd, including a handful of journalists, who buttonhole Behar with tape recorders to ask him his thoughts on the structure. The Maker's Mark 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z In the eastern Kansas town of Emporia last week, Wolf buttonholed Roberts during a walking tour, challenging him to a debate in a spat captured by local media. Vulnerable Kansas senator leaves opening for tea party push She checks the buttonholes and zipper for snags, the legs and cuffs for wear. Recycle, Reuse, Reproft: Startups Try to Make Money Selling Your Stuff 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z During the course of your conversations, ask the people you buttonhole what they do and where they work. 4 Tips For Networking To Change Fields 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z I wanted to write about the Warren presidential hoopla, so I mentioned to her spokeswoman, Lacey Rose, that I’d buttonhole the senator after the subcommittee meeting. Elizabeth Warren for president? I encourage you to continue to buttonhole IRS officials and members of Congress to restore IRS funding to an acceptable level. Readers speak out about VA, CFC, IRS and tribute to federal employees Fifteen minutes later, would-be candidates were on the House floor, buttonholing colleagues. Dana Milbank: Eric Cantor’s instant burial In the hours leading up to the vote, liberal activists fed up with Mr. Cuomo buttonholed party members and urged them to support a challenger, Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor. As Antics Subside, Both Cuomo and the Left Claim the Last Hurrah 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Two cabinet ministers in the reception line buttonholed the guest of honor on behalf of the American imprisoned for spying for Israel, giving voice to a popular cause that until this week appeared hopeless. Israelis See Pollard as Hero and Hostage 2014-04-01T12:18:01Z Almost certainly, some EU leaders will want to buttonhole Yanukovich on his failure to release from prison the opponent he sees as a threat to his re-election. Ukraine's Yanukovich: a tough nut for the EU 2013-11-28T04:23:08Z Millions of red buttonhole poppies are being worn to mark Remembrance Sunday all over the UK. Tricks to stop your poppy falling off 2013-11-09T14:10:35Z In a second spot, for the 5 Series diesel, a wife buttonholes her husband, saying, “We need to talk.” Advertising: Clearing the Air on Diesel’s Dismal Reputation 2013-08-14T00:33:13Z Trinity hospitals in the Muskegon area already employ community health workers who knock on doors and buttonhole neighbors at football games and laundromats, offering to help them get insurance. Racing to Inform Millions Unaware of New Health Coverage 2013-04-23T20:06:31Z On a recent store visit he was buttonholed by a customer who had waited ages for ham to be sliced; he quickly agreed that the store should have a second slicing machine. Carrefour: Up the right aisle 2013-02-14T16:06:18Z The moment you sound like a salesperson, customers buttonhole you into the "empty suit" category. 6 Ways to Enhance Your Credibility 2013-01-04T15:00:43Z Lapels with a handy buttonhole have are an advantage, according to the Royal British Legion's . Tricks to stop your poppy falling off 2013-11-09T14:10:35Z Few of those I buttonholed in the town's outdoor market had any intention of voting. PCC polls: Record low turnout? 2012-11-12T15:47:26Z And Ken Biberaj, a businessman who is running in a competitive City Council race to represent the Upper West Side, has mailed a letter and has buttonholed people outside the subway and on the streets. 2013 New York Primary Voting Requires Any Party Changes by Oct. 12 2012-10-05T01:30:41Z "Eventually you get people buttonholing you, asking, 'Do you think I have a problem?' " he said. Well: In Business, Nondrinking Can Be a Costly Expense 2012-10-01T21:16:14Z The journalists would then turn the institute's proposals into leader columns while the researchers buttonholed shadow ministers. A rightwing insurrection is usurping our democracy 2012-10-01T19:30:03Z One woman, buttonholed as she enjoys a cigarette on her doorstep, is more concerned to ensure her children look before they cross the deserted road. Swing states: Colorado and Nevada: Changing, but hurting 2012-09-20T15:00:32Z On Thursday, Mr. Restler spent much of the day buttonholing voters outside the polling place at a senior center on Leonard Street, but the turnout there was comparatively sparse. In Race to Succeed Vito Lopez, Show of Strength for Brooklyn Democratic Machine 2012-09-17T02:05:12Z On Thursday, he spent much of the day buttonholing voters outside the polling place at a senior center on Leonard Street, but the turnout there was comparatively sparse. City Room: Loyalty to Vito Lopez Is Seen in a Brooklyn Assembly Election 2012-09-14T17:10:46Z And last year, he thought he was well on the way to shooting a documentary on Representative Anthony D. Weiner's mayoral bid - Mr. Weiner seemed interested when Mr. Boyle buttonholed him on the Rockaway Boardwalk. City Room: Kevin Boyle and Rich Horan Roam N.Y.C. on an Endless Quest for Ideas 2012-08-31T14:48:18Z "Ho emerges as an unexpected hero in this balanced book, first seen trying to buttonhole Woodrow Wilson at the Paris peace conference of 1919," says a new review in The Economist. IHT Rendezvous: Did the U.S. 'Lose' Ho Chi Minh to Communism? 2012-08-28T04:14:09Z The buttonhole machine, which dated to 1940, had leather belts and produced the sound of a machine gun, appropriate for a tool made during , pointed out one of the company’s founders, Victor Lytvinenko. Design Notebook: Craft Turns Heads at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2012-05-24T02:00:02Z The prince asked if he had noticed at the reception a young man, a rather good-looking, fair young man with a white rose in his buttonhole. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z I picked some flowers of it and put them in my buttonhole, but was warned by the Tibetans not to do so, as they said it was poisonous and would give me a headache. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z He was immaculately dressed, a small orchid in his buttonhole and a pair of exceedingly shiny patent leather boots making him look as if he had just come out of a bandbox. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z Outside the co-op the other night, activists from both sides of the debate tried to buttonhole members, only to be ignored by most. At Park Slope Food Co-op, a Debate and Disinterest 2012-03-23T14:58:12Z He smoked a large cigar, and wore an aggressive buttonhole. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z How nice he looked with that red carnation in his buttonhole. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z In an instant he had buttonholed Oswald, who was of necessity compelled to stand and surrender. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z "I think it might run to a buttonhole." Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z They were made into little buttonhole posies, and, as Parkinson says, "worn abroad by curious lovers of these delights." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Its forms are not emphasized by a raised outline of buttonhole stitching, as in Point d'Alen�on and Point d'Argentan, but are simply outlined by a thread. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z “How nice you look, Arthur, in that buttonhole.” The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The slow-motion unraveling of the original ultrasound bill began weeks ago, when one Democratic senator buttonholed another after the health committee voted to approve it. How support for Virginia's contentious abortion bill unraveled 2012-02-25T05:23:04Z The bronze button of the Grand Army was in the buttonhole of his threadbare coat. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z He wore a tight stock with a large silver buckle, hair plainly clubbed, and a silver whistle like a boatswain's attached to a buttonhole by a thong. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The entire figure is then carried out, both solid filling and openwork, with fine stitching, the buttonhole stitch being most generally employed. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z Now it was seeming the most urgent thing in the world to find another flower for Arthur’s buttonhole. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Yetta knew that the narrow red ribbon in his buttonhole was the Legion of Honor. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Having decided to try again, the abb� donned his most becoming suit of violet silk with gold embroidered buttonholes, arranged his hair with extreme nicety, and placed a patch close to his favourite dimple. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Calder is timid, more timid than Frelinghuysen with his eternal buttonholing you to ask what impression he has made, more timid than anyone except Kellogg of Minnesota. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z The Rose points, some of which are not raised, are formed with a pattern-worked net in buttonhole stitches, the parts of the pattern being joined together by brides. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z At every station between Bagdad and Sulphurville crowds of country folk got in, all of whom were wearing flags and flowers in their buttonholes and were in a state of perspiring festivity. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z What had they to gain by putting their treasury at the disposal of the struggling "buttonhole workers"? Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I fancy I see Pavidus—Lord Pavidus, perhaps—looking down upon myself and sniffing at me, like a footman with too strong a bouquet in his buttonhole. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z A third is a seventeenth-century portrait of Colonel Dominic French, who looks manly and resolute, in spite of his yellow satin coat, flowing wig, and lace cravat, drawn through his buttonhole. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Before entering the house, I would always pluck one and place it in my buttonhole. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Socrates, according to Plato, must have spent a good many hours and days in buttonholing young men on the streets of Athens, and pricking the airy bubbles of the catchwords which they used so glibly. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z But the next year the buttonhole workers were out for two solid months, the hottest of the year—and lost. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z An hour later they discovered Danforth, flower in buttonhole, spruce and smiling after three hours' sleep, displaying to the customers at Floyd & Meredith's a new buck-and-wing step in the centre of the office floor. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z Naturally I didn't bother to reply to that taunt, but kept out of Helen's way more persistently than before, until one afternoon Mrs. Edson buttonholed me. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z A ridiculous, a tragic, conclusion, I told myself indifferently: but then, with a fresh Daiquiri and a sprig of orange blossoms in my buttonhole, it meant less than nothing. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z He took the rose he was wearing in the buttonhole of his fashionably cut coat and gave it to her. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z THE charming Pablito, correctly attired in a frock coat, with a white buttonhole bouquet, was meanwhile courting a beautiful Jewish girl, sister of an artillery officer, who had just arrived. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z About a quarter to nine the ranks of the stallholders were stiffened by the arrival of a magnificent gentleman in evening dress, with a gardenia in his buttonhole. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z I steered up against one of 'em and buttonholed him. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z "The buttonholes are pretty well made, seems to me," said the concierge; "but perhaps monsieur don't agree with me?" Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z "You have one buttonhole already," she told him, her voice not very easy. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z I took it up and stuck it in the buttonhole of my old coat. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z Frayed linen, and an orange silk handkerchief, gave a note to the generally artistic colouring of the ensemble, while one small daisy drooped despondently in his buttonhole.... Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z June was greatly excited over the prospect and stood unusually still while Seki San buttoned him into a starchy white blouse and pinned a scarlet flower in his buttonhole. Captain June 2011-12-08T03:00:26.820Z Hospice salespeople would vie with drug marketers to provide lunches for doctors, since free food was often the only way to buttonhole them, Angelo said. Aunt Midge Not Dying in Hospice Reveals $14 Billion U.S. Market 2011-12-06T07:49:52Z He even collected what was known as “watch rates” for the parish of St. Anne’s, and might have been seen going about with an ink-bottle in his buttonhole. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z "Villa didn't think so, anyway," said another sportsman, who flaunted a chocolate-and-blue rose in his buttonhole without intending any affront to horticulture. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z It was really not art at all, for art was nearly allied to nature, although Oscar Wilde said that the only connecting link was a really well-made buttonhole. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Justice Gregory Moon looking much the same as usual save for a sprig of yew in his buttonhole. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z I had to buttonhole him and pump it out word by word. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Lawless placed it in his buttonhole, not that he cared for wearing flowers, but because—why he did not know—it pleased him to give pleasure to this simple-minded man. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z In quest of money he buttonholed all the school. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z This personage, who wore a bit of red ribbon in the buttonhole of his long frock coat, was nothing more or less than my lord steward of the castle and surrounding domain. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z A boy had been set to work in the tailor shop, and it had been found that he was unable to make the buttons and the buttonholes of a coat come in the right place. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z I don’t like that green and yellow ribbon in your buttonhole though. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z She would be on hand, speaking and buttonholing elected officials on many issues, including reckless driving and pedestrian dangers. City Room: Car Strikes Activist for Pedestrian Safety, Killing Her 2011-11-16T23:26:22Z Mollie took the rosebuds daintily in her white-gloved fingers, shot a sly glance up at him as she kissed them, then slipped them deftly into the buttonhole and fastened them there. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z For the first time she noticed that in his buttonhole he had a tiny copy of the Union Jack. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Although he was eighteen years old in body, his mind was only eight years old, and so he would never be able to achieve the feat of making buttons and buttonholes meet. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z It was noticeable that he had donned a new suit of clothes in honour of the occasion, and I saw that he wore a sprig of japonica in his buttonhole. The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z And I need hardly add that now Polwhele would have turned up at my funeral with a smile on his lips and a nosegay in his buttonhole. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z The latter was dressed tastefully in city clothes, and wore a flower in his buttonhole. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z And Mrs. Waite was there, buttonholing everybody to get her pension increased, and wearing the costliest crape you ever saw, my dear, and—think of it!—solitaire diamond ear-rings with it! A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z “Well, I’m going to name this old camp Valley Forge,” Robert Crimmins laughed, as he stamped his feet and blew on his fingers, before picking a wild flower for his buttonhole! Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z In each case the rest of the crew buttonholed their late stroke, and put the screw upon him to beg pardon, and with success. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z At one meet-and-greet, a Chinese official buttonholed her and asked when the U.S. was going to implement a national energy policy. Jennifer Granholm's plan to fix America 2011-09-20T00:30:00Z The temperance party after the same model has formed a Blue Ribbon Army, the members of which, distinguished by wearing a piece of blue ribbon in the buttonhole, confine themselves to fighting against alcohol. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z "But if you make a scrap-book you must work at it, just as Nellie did, and you will have to buttonhole the edges." Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z “And charging extra for pinning them in the lucky purchaser’s buttonhole?” he suggested. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Cortwright had risen, and he took his guest confidentially by the buttonhole. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z I scrutinized him more closely—the rose was still in his buttonhole. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z You saw at once that the author was all admiration for the music, the electric light, the flowers in the buttonholes; that he himself delighted in contemplating them. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z "But you were not to put the pictures in until you had shown me the buttonholed edges." Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z I don’t see much difference between charging extra for pinning in a buttonhole and taking tips.” The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z The idea of wearing ribbons in their buttonholes did not seem to strike the twins favorably. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z Upstairs, locksmiths and buttonhole cutters look through dusty windows on the L, which, under some dim influence of the moon, tosses past the buildings here its human tide, up and down, night and morning. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z In his buttonhole he wore a yellow dahlia. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z "I can buttonhole it now, only I'd rather dress my doll." Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z Sell�n rapped his patent-leather boots with his cane, shyly smelt the flower in his buttonhole, and looked indifferent. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Put on that best coat of yours and a flower in your buttonhole, and usher in imaginary thousands, while Powell piles up uncounted dimes in the ticket office and Durham shoots the films. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z There are some buttonholes made while it seemed as if my heart sang like birds. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z His heart, such as it was, longed for a distinguished passion, and his buttonhole gaped for a decoration. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z I started out to offer my services, but some one buttonholed me for the next Stunt; I had forgotten I was in it. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z When he had rubbed his shoes with a bur leaf, brushed his hat with his coat sleeve, put a grape-hyacinth in his buttonhole and seized his cinnamon cane, he was ready to go. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z There was such a wind, such an icy wind wriggling into every buttonhole, and I had no hat. Justin Torres: “Reverting to a Wild State.” 2011-07-25T04:00:00Z Patent Office buttonholed us into the travel niche. Learning from "the Winkelvi" 2011-07-22T17:42:06Z In his buttonhole was Helene’s bouquet of violets, underneath which peeped out the rosette of the grand officer of the Legion of Honor, alas, in jeopardy! McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z I rushed to tell Gallet, and then went home to Fontainebleau, carrying my wife the two bits of news, one obvious in my buttonhole, and the other the greatest hope I had ever had. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z “Take that,” she added, as she removed a great yellow jasmine sprig from her rich black hair; and Chumbley bowed, and placed it in his buttonhole. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z There was a sound of a horn and a coach dashed in sight filled with students wearing crimson streamers in their buttonholes. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z In less than five minutes by the watch the chinless boy was sitting over in a corner, alone with a lemonade, and the Colonel had Small by the buttonhole, talking Chicago to him. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Pass the other end through the buttonhole, also through a small hole made in the coat just behind the buttonhole, and then down and fasten to the suspender button on the back of your trousers. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z A red handkerchief actually blossomed in his left buttonhole. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z But Chancellor Timothy P. White is determined to buttonhole legislators and convince them that the medical school is sorely needed. California Cuts Weigh Heavily on Its Colleges 2011-07-09T01:30:49Z He buttonholed me in his dim, mysterious way, and said he hoped I wouldn’t be above, etc, etc. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z His was a chronic case that was incurable, so I rarely called upon him at a busy time, for nothing pleased the old fellow better than buttonholing me for a long talk. Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z But this manoeuvre, so far from helping him had precisely the opposite effect; for the old man, with effusive cordiality, at once buttonholed Fordham, leaving the girl free to take possession of Phil. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z On Thursday, Rabbi Leiter and other clergy members adopted a strategy similar to that used by gay-rights advocates, buttonholing on-the-fence lawmakers and giving interviews to the growing pack of reporters here. Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Frustrated in N.Y. Lobbying 2011-06-17T01:24:25Z Having many friends in high places, some of them old schoolfellows and kinsmen, who had become pale and anxious Cabinet Ministers, he buttonholed them all, demanding the truth in his jovial, autocratic fashion. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z I wasn’t sure, you see, and I couldn’t well buttonhole another fellow on spec. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Moreover, the secretary was beautifully attired; his morning coat was perfect; his tall hat tilted back at the right degree, and the triple white carnation in his buttonhole was a sight to see. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Throughout the day, advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage swarmed the halls of the Capitol, buttonholing senators to make their case. Gay Marriage Bill Is One Vote Shy of Clearing State Senate 2011-06-15T02:30:39Z Plucking a sprig of lad's-love, he stuck it into the buttonhole of his jacket, then climbed over the hedge into an adjoining field. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Then, taking a few violets from her corsage, she would fix them in his buttonhole, saying: "No, no; look up at the ceiling while I fix them nicely—so!" The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z Brookfield and Jarvis moved from one group to another; they buttonholed classmates in out-of-the-way corners, and joined themselves to the little crowd that had collected before the schoolroom fire. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z To put a point to this foppishness, a narrow silken ribbon, also pure white, depending from his lapel buttonhole, suggested an eye-glass in his pocket. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Some girl let down a scrap basket from her window full of buttonhole bouquets. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z Then I felt the button which closed my loose garment pulled gently, as if to detach it from the buttonhole, and—quick as thought I was out of my hammock and upon him! Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z However, he was not destined, as his colleagues expressed it, to wear a cross at his buttonhole, but only to get hæmorrhoids by leading a too sedentary life. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z They are like mariners who put to sea in flimsy boats, or like explorers who fit themselves with Prince Albert suits and buttonhole bouquets. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Thousands of farmers who want to forestall cuts in agriculture subsidies have also been buttonholing their representatives. Lobbyists Mobilize to Preserve Tax Breaks 2011-05-19T21:00:00Z It was better than the buttonhole making; yet even so, Mrs. Carpenter found that very close and diligent application was necessary, if she would pay her rent and pay her way. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z This place was held strongly by British Infantry, many members of the Legion of Frontiersmen—distinguished only by the little bronze badge in their buttonholes—and also by hundreds of citizens armed with rifles. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z The other two buttons were gone, but the store buttonholes remained. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z She laughed and, going in, presently returned with thread and needle and sitting upon his knee restored the buttonhole to its proper size. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z The first thing I did was buttonhole every broker I could find. 8 Ways to Turn Partnerships into Profits 2011-05-12T06:43:32Z In his buttonhole the Grand Duke wore a carnation. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z No, Mother dear; it's the purely domestic variety; plain sewing and buttonholes and shirtwaists and middy blouses and how to hang a skirt, if I get so far along. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z There was a very large black button to fit a very large buttonhole. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z "Or we might buttonhole a scallop around the edge instead of hemming it," suggested Ethel Brown. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z Likewise the western buttonhole is almost sure to bloom with the insignia of some secret order. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She tied his dress-bow for him, and put a red rosebud with a tip of fern in his buttonhole. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z His hand went to his buttonhole and detached a tiny red ribbon. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Next, a small white button with a buttonhole of corresponding size. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z The stewards are usually too much occupied with themselves, to remember those honorary duties represented by rosette or ribbon in the buttonhole. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z "Thank you Mining," said he, as she brought him the flower, and he smelled it, and stuck it in his buttonhole. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z He was always most elegantly dressed, in a black frock-coat, with the red ribbon of some Order in his buttonhole. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Nettie is staying with me, and as she is enthusiastic over antiquities I was bringing her here when Mrs. Vicar buttonholed me. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z I can put in a lovely patch, with the checks and stripes all matching; and darn, and hem, and fell seams, and make buttonholes. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Hemphill was a particularly disagreeable figure in the outer office, for he always buttonholed one to listen to a tiresome anecdote. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z When we were fifteen feet from him, Archie threw a hand-spring, and I put my head, like a red buttonhole bouquet, plumb in the gentleman's vest. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z Out of sight of the house he sat down on a bank and idly pulled a buttonhole of primroses. The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z Fastening the tiny flowers in their buttonholes, the glee-club began to move off. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z He had a flower in his buttonhole; a red rose, indeed, showing his colors for the final triumphant day. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z As we passed into the living room, Mrs. Claybourne buttonholed me. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z "Any sloppier than going with your pants half zipped, and your shirt buttoned into the wrong buttonholes?" Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z With my shiny suit and cheap buttonhole, I looked worryingly convincing. Big fat sham wedding 2011-03-24T03:44:30Z He was silent for a moment, and then, carefully plucking a thread from the buttonhole in his lapel, he inquired. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z He tried to run the stem of the rose through his buttonhole. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z After dinner he buttonholed me on the front porch. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z "Yes, the Pancini also!" remarks the Colonel, and looks down indifferently at the flower in his buttonhole. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z "Cut buttonholes in the skins of the bourgeois!" were familiar battle-cries. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z He is often buttonholed on the subject, he said, at cocktail and dinner parties or while shopping. Even in Wealthy Town, Schools Feel Pinch 2011-03-08T19:28:34Z And I thought—I thought—to put the matter so easily to them that I should be spared the necessity of buttonholing them!” Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z Some of them wore sprigs of shamrock in their buttonholes, and I remembered it was St. Patrick's Day. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z "May one accept gardenias from a relative?" she asks him, coaxingly--and takes one from the bouquet to place in his buttonhole. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z He was wearing a grey tweed check suit, a grey bowler hat, and a bunch of hothouse violets in his buttonhole. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z There was a stall kept by great actresses, who sold their autographs and their photographs, and buttonholes of rosebuds and carnations. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z “It was a novel way of buttonholing them,” he laughed. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z He wore a velveteen coat, a white waistcoat, a lavender tie, and a flower in his buttonhole. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z And what was the meaning of those two violets drooping so sentimentally in his buttonhole? Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z He wore in his buttonhole a red rose; it was not his habit to decorate himself florally, but these things happen at bazaars; some pretty fool-girl had sold it to him. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Money pouring into cash boxes; sovereigns for buttonholes; notes for foolish trumpery. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Burns was fastening his rose in his buttonhole. Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z Mr. Ebers sped to the theater, buttonholed someone content to take hundreds of dollars more than the seats cost, then passed them on to his client at a loss. Best Seats in the House 2011-02-04T20:47:11Z He noticed that all the men who had been speaking with Higgins wore orange ribbons in their buttonholes, but it struck him, too, that somehow they did not look like students. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z There can be no doubt that his shouting, his slang, his familiarity with Jesus, his buttonholing old God, his slang-version of the Bible, do offend large numbers of people. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z She was selling buttonholes, helping at one of the flower stalls. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z The pad was secured to the arm at the elbow or any other point under distress by a leather band fitted with a number of buttonholes to allow for various arm sizes. Anecdotes from the Archive: Relief for writers 2011-01-28T18:15:04.573Z Embroider the scallops with linen embroidery floss, size "D," using the buttonhole stitch. Guide to Hotel Housekeeping 2011-01-27T03:00:39.557Z "Can't help that," said Rowland, "there's a raft of Princeton men in town going around with orange ribbons in their buttonholes and hunting for chances to bet money against Yale, Harvard and Cornell." Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z Lucy ran to meet him with a good-morning kiss and a rose for his buttonhole. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Subsequently Mr. James was to have buttonholed Hallery’s American, and in the warm bath of his sympathy to have opened and bled slowly from another vein of thought. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Two of his directors were waiting to see him, a reporter buttonholed him upon the pavement. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z His tie, his socks, and the orchid in his buttonhole were all of the same shade, and his opal pin repeated the lights and shades of colour. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Encourage the girls, too, to practice on the buttonhole for home work. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z He stood there awkward and sheepish, while the corner of his napkin slowly glided from his buttonhole into his soup plate. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z She fastened a beautiful red rose, just about to unfold, in his buttonhole. Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z He was careful always to wear the usual bunch of violets in his buttonhole, and to affect something of the dandy in his attire. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z The one orchid was in Tony's buttonhole; and he was in a pew looking on while she promised to love, honour and obey another man. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Make the buttonholes three-fourths of an inch long and one inch apart. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z But he had torn both buttonhole and band, and could only cover up those shameful marks by turning up the collar of his dark blue jacket. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Mr. Chossek went to Gelson’s Santa Barbara location late one night when things were slow and buttonholed the produce manager, who then connected him with the produce buyer. Small-Business Guide: Getting Your Product Onto Retail Shelves 2010-10-20T20:40:00Z So when she ran into him at a fundraiser, she buttonholed him. Dr. Francis Collins discovered genes that cause cystic fibrosis, Huntington's 2010-09-27T19:12:00Z Mr. Rosselli and S.E.I.U. leaders are visiting dozens of Kaiser facilities, with their foot soldiers distributing leaflets at nursing home entrances at daybreak and buttonholing co-workers at lunchtime. Union Battle in California Threatens S.E.I.U. 2010-09-14T05:20:00Z Begin one-half inch from the top and make the buttonholes three-fourths of an inch long and three-fourths of an inch apart. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Coalition members plan to buttonhole lawmakers as they campaign for reelection this fall, demanding that they sign a pledge to oppose any cuts to program entitlements, such as raising the retirement age. In weekly address, Obama returns to campaign chestnut: Warning of threat to Social Security 2010-08-14T10:18:00Z This competent woman, who effortlessly pulled my daughter out through an incision barely bigger than a buttonhole, will reassure me. Cases: A Doctor Discovers a Patient in the Mirror 2010-07-19T19:43:00Z Lawmakers report being buttonholed over bailouts by confrontational constituents, and Senator Robert F. Bennett, Republican of Utah, was jeered at a party convention by people chanting “TARP, TARP, TARP.” Potent Issue for Fall Races: Bank Bailout 2010-07-11T00:07:00Z At that booster meeting, Sundquist buttonholed the younger Moos and convinced him to manage it. New Cougars AD Bill Moos, WSU stories intertwined 2010-05-09T03:06:00Z Cutting—With the buttonhole scissors cut the hole one-fourth of an inch from the folded edge and straight with the threads of the cloth. b. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Many entered the Capitol, wandering the hallways to buttonhole lawmakers and at one point disrupting House proceedings. House approves sweeping healthcare overhaul 2010-03-22T04:40:00Z Ms. Troyer, who handles marketing for the company, first buttonholed Mr. Jones at a trade show. Prototype: Building a Better Mailbox 2010-02-20T23:06:00Z They buzz random apartments to get into buildings, “buttonhole people coming out, talk to doormen, supers,” he said. 2010-02-15T19:05:00Z When using silk, and buttonhole twist, match cloth as near as can be had. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines Stranding—The strand consists of carrying the thread along the edge of the buttonhole near enough to be easily covered by the buttonhole stitch, for the purpose of adding strength to the buttonhole. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z “Yes, there’s no doubt about that, and you have wasted a sovereign that might have gone in buttonholes and gloves.” A Double Knot He put his hand out and took the spray and fastened it in his buttonhole, saying that the mistletoe was above her head. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode These flower girls are kept quite busy making up and disposing of buttonhole bouquets at certain hours of the day, to adorn strangers and native dudes, from whose presence no locality is quite exempt. The Story of Malta The buttonholes must be neat, and the buttons sewed on good and strong with neck. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines Do not cut this thread, as this is ready to begin the buttonhole stitch after the overcasting. c. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z For in getting the second button at the wrist through the buttonhole I took up a bit of the skin, and then, if you please, there was a hullabaloo. Deep Moat Grange Borrowing Prime's pocket-knife she cut to the line, made tiny buttonholes all around the piece, and threaded them with a drawing-string made of the soft leather. Stranded in Arcady It would be awkward for Mr. Sibley to be trapped and buttonholed here, just as he had been officially described as out. Where the Path Breaks All buttonholes may be stitched in one garment without removing from the machine. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines The object of the overcasting is to prevent raveling while working the buttonhole and the fewer stitches which will accomplish this purpose the better. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z I didn't like his eternal buttonhole, or the hat on one side, or the awful shade of their beastly blinds, or the colour of the good lady's hair for that matter! Witching Hill On one side leave holes for the buttonholes. The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book He has been buttonholing every yokel he came across, and asking them why they had to work, while we—I and you, you know—did nothing. The Wonderful Visit They would have been drooping by the time we got them down to the town, and they'd only last about an hour in people's buttonholes. The School by the Sea Avoid stretching the buttonhole; the edges should touch when finished. b. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z A white button with a shred of linen attached, which hung in the buttonhole, was the only sign that a state of excitement must have preceded slumber. The Wish A Novel Very fond as he was of jewelry, he wore on this occasion a superb topaz pin, and a long gilt chain was visible through the buttonholes of his waistcoat. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 Although it was only ten o'clock in the morning, M. de Gra�n wore a black coat,—that was etiquette,—and a riband, shot with several bright colours, was suspended from his buttonhole. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 He would wear a hideous orchid in his buttonhole and take her to Brighton for week-ends. Sinister Street, vol. 2 After finishing the last buttonhole stitch, pass the needle down between the first and second stitch, and bring it out between the last and next to the last stitch. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z To mend kid gloves, first buttonhole around the rent not so close as in a buttonhole; then overcast, taking up the thread of the buttonhole on the edge, and then draw together. The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) He was clothed as if he had returned from an affair, with a flower in his buttonhole, and a top hat held in the hand with his stick and gloves. The Guarded Heights Then she set sail and was off with a Jewish gentleman friend, which had been waiting at the entrance all this time with a gardenia in his buttonhole. Believe You Me! When wedding favours or buttonholes are given it is by them also. Manners and Rules of Good Society Or Solecisms to be Avoided Put in three threads across the width of the buttonhole, bringing the thread out at the bottom of the last buttonhole stitch. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z "I'll make you a buttonhole bouquet if you will wear it," she proposed. The Cottage of Delight A Novel This doubtless explains why, when he read at Cambridge, he wore first a red rose and then a white one in his buttonhole, which to my undergraduate mind seemed “dandiacal.” Springtime and Other Essays Ruth, dear," she said, with a far-away expression in her eyes, "you've a tiny flower in your buttonhole which has been there all day. The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold In that case he will need a few more lessons, for yesterday I counted eleven buttonholes with my foil on his doublet, which, however, had only six. Marguerite de Valois Turn the cloth so that the thumb covers the thread and the buttonhole, and work the bar by bringing the needle out each time over the thread, as in the blanket stitch. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Any other man would have picked up the flower, and stuck it in his buttonhole, and galloped off in triumph.' L'Arrabiata and Other Tales And she laughed and joined a big, good-looking 379 man who had come to seek her, and who wore, in his buttonhole, the button of the French Legion of Honour. The Moonlit Way There were little groups of young men rather rakishly but shabbily dressed; often they wore a flower in their buttonhole. A Bed of Roses "It was her favorite rose," he said, putting it in the buttonhole of his coat. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins Caution—Be sure that the thread is long enough to work the buttonhole, but not over-long, as the thread wears and is more liable to break. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z I was really burning to hear them talk, but Percy Vansittart buttonholed me to say the muffinière had run short of supplies. Love's Usuries Boy dear," she said, "you are a dandy in the matter of ties and buttonholes; only it is so essentially you, that one rather enjoys it. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days The young man put the honeysuckle in his buttonhole. The Loves of Ambrose Very soon I had mastered the art of making long and short stitches, French knots, border and buttonhole stitches, etc. The Black Watch A Record in Action With the new thread fasten without a knot on the wrong side, bring through the last purl at the edge of the buttonhole and continue. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z The absence of flowers from the lamps and the buttonholes of the chauffeurs negatived the idea of a wedding, and three cars were scarcely necessary to take Mr. Naylor's small household for a holiday. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall The Boy was very particular about his ties and buttonholes. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days Ambrose was wearing a new stove-pipe hat, his swallow tailed coat revealed a new beflowered waistcoat, and in his buttonhole blossomed a rose. The Loves of Ambrose Her dress was so stiffly starched I couldn't fasten it for her; I had to fetch Mercy, and she opened the buttonholes with a pair of scissors. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story On cloth that ravels badly put in two parallel rows of running stitches and then cut the buttonhole between the rows. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z He was dressed in his very best clothes—his longest-tailed coat—and wore a flower in his buttonhole, and he told us the most surprising stories of his early life. Hempfield A Novel This afternoon, for the first time, he had arrived without a buttonhole. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days A program from the 1939 fair lists among the categories "three summer squash," "best adult clothing," "best buttonhole," and "best Holstein heifer." Frying Pan Farm Connie went extremely red, as well she might, for she had asked Linda where Mr. Dawson got the flower in his buttonhole, and if Miss Coleman had given it to him? The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story A large eyelet may be cut out and worked around with the buttonhole stitch. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z The great hallway I had just left gave an impression of respectable age, like a neat and primped up old gentleman still able to wear a flower in his buttonhole. A Top-Floor Idyl Then the Aunt noticed that he wore no buttonhole, and that his tie was lavender. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days He is as bad form as one of those enthusiastic converts who corner us in railway trains or buttonhole us in the streets to ask us if we are saved. The Book of This and That I'll have a white carnation and a piece of fern in my left buttonhole, and a smile that won't come off; and when I spy the yellow jacket I'm comin' up and say, "Hello!" Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Note: Scraps and odd pieces of calico can be used for the practice work on buttonholes. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Gordon was sitting on the corner of the bed, looking very fine with a gardenia in his buttonhole. A Top-Floor Idyl It starts a new r�gime, in the matter of buttonholes, and—other things. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days The next morning, faultlessly dressed, with carnations in his buttonhole, he composed himself in his pleasant oak-furnished room to await his first batch of callers. Man and Maid Fat theatrical managers with diamond rings and buttonholes sometimes used to sit beside Madame and watch the pupils. Carnival As the buttonhole requires a great deal of practice it is well to keep these pieces in the sewing box and work at it at odd times during the progress of the years' work. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z The decoration, at the period of its founding, was in the shape of a star with five double rays, attached to one of the buttonholes of the coat by a red moir� ribbon. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 After tea they took their rackets and strolled down the lawn, pausing a moment while she chose him a buttonhole. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days Half an hour later the Squire buttonholed Peignton in a corner of the room, and gave him his instructions. Lady Cassandra "They've just been living out there in the waiting room for a solid week, buttonholing everybody from doctors down to orderlies asking about you." A Woman's Place The buttonhole model is intended to show how much skill has been acquired. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z It was the season for carnations,—the young men put these flowers in their buttonholes and thus were enabled to receive, at a distance, military honors from functionaries a trifle near-sighted. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 The President did not seem particularly happy to see anybody, and looked rather bored as the Senators and Congress men buttonholed him. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself But only think of dancing with lunatics—and such ugly ones too—and being held by the buttonhole by some wild-eyed ancient mariner. The Night Side of London |
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