Word: honneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
President Pusey will be given the French Legion d'Honneur at 11:00 a.m. today at the French Embassy in Boston...
...Legion d'Honneur is presented to important people of friendly countries who play a major part in developing better understanding and closer friendship between France and other countries...
Caressing Shadows. Edouard Manet, who eventually won the Légion d'honneur ribbon, strove mightily to stay on the good side of the academicians. Though his subject matter was often as old as Giorgione's and Raphael's, the fact that he presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez...
...week's bombardment left Brisson outwardly unruffled. Sitting in Le Figaro's Champs Elysees office and fingering the Legion d'Honneur rosette in his buttonhole, he said: "I expected a violent reaction. Unfortunately, I had to give a conscientious report...