Word: honneur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven of the 63 American "Aces" who had downed five or more enemy planes were Harvard men. Harvard men received 93 Croix de Guerre and four medals of the Légion d'Honneur...
...First World War. The September following graduation he began to fly in France, and for a year and a half, in the 94th Aero Squadron's 1st Patrol Pursuit Group, he won an outstanding reputation, as well as the Croix de Guerre and admission to the Legion d'Honneur. After 12 years' retirement in Peru as a sugar planter and producer, Campbell worked in military and civilian aviation. Harvard, he writes in the 50-year Class Report, "is a place where men are expected to do things with their lives...
...expression of alienation from society is a concept that Manet would have found ridiculous. He thoroughly enjoyed the life of the race track and cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
...pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received the red rosette of a commander of the Légion d'Honneur, Chagall mused: "First a commandeur, then a TIME cover. You see what happens when...
...Army captain, he received the Legion d'Honneur for his detective work in uncovering cached Nazi art loot...