Word: medaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Sacret Heart Order...
...figure, partly carcass, called by the artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper's Corcoran Gold Medal Winner, Cape Cod Afternoon, Charles Sheeler's immaculately conceived City Interior, Frank Mechau's Last of the Wild Horses. Only U. S. painter in the money, however, was Manhattan's Robert Philipp, who won first honorable mention ($400) with Dust to Dust, a dustless scene of mourners...
Finally Jesuit LeBuffe paid his respects to novenas-the Catholic act of faith which the devout spend nine days performing, usually saying numerous prayers in honor of a saint or a feast day. Said he: "Now I carry a medal of the Little Flower with me and pray to her daily, but I am not sure I'd die for a novena to the Little Flower. There is too much Novena-itis, too many spiritual lollypops in presentday religion. I favor novenas, of course, but I do not believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers...
With twenty-four students from Harvard and twenty-nine from Yale the honors of the camp were evenly distributed. Harvard topped the lot when Francis X. Leary, '38 was awarded "The United States Field Artillery Association Medal for that Field Artillery student who, during the 1937 ROTC Camp, best exemplified, in outstanding soldierly characteristics, the high standards of the arm." Albert E. Brunelli, '38, topped the list of pistol shots in the camp by qualifying as a Pistol Expert with an average of 90.7. An average of 85 per cent is required for such qualification. Phillip M. Andress, '37, also...
...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...