Word: lapeller
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...pinned the white-enamel-and-silver cross of a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founded in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte to honor those who, "by their knowledge, their virtues, their talent," have upheld the principles of the French Republic. He will be entitled to wear the inconspicuous red lapel ribbon, and will find special seats reserved for him at parades and other functions-joining the democratic company of the 196,146 Frenchmen who also have the Legion of Honor...
Actually, whatever else the Madison incident proved, it showed that in citizens had simply exercised their American right to tell unidentified petition packers and lapel grabbers in general to go jump in the lake. The Declaration of Independence, after all, had already been signed...
...vacation in Paris, Mary Pickford, 58, was invited to the Italian embassy for a little ceremony. For her work in helping orphans and sending relief packages to Italy, Ambassador Pietro Quaroni pinned the Order of the Republic on her lapel and gave her a diplomatic buss. Whereupon a member of the audience, honeymooning Sir Charles Mendl, 79, did the same. Said he: "I always kiss Mary every time I see her; been doing it for 25 years...
...Premier Ala as his "friend of 30 years." But the Communists had no intention of letting calm and conciliation reign. In Teheran, they called themselves the National Association for Fighting the A.I.O.C., rallied in the capital's Majlis Square in defiance of police orders. Young men wearing lapel buttons decorated with Picasso's dove and the word "peace" led a crowd of 7,000 in clenched-fist salutes, in shouts for the abolition of martial law in the oilfields and the freeing of Communist political prisoners...
...Straight Flush (Jay C. Flippen). Jane Darwell plays an authentic old doll named Nellie Thursday, and Marilyn Maxwell supplies songs and cheesecake as a showgirl reluctantly in thrall to the Lemon Drop Kid. They treat their problems with deadpan earnestness, as Runyon intended them to, and beneath each sharp lapel and checkered vest beats a heart of gold...