Word: medallioned
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...illuminated document bound in red calf, a medallion on a ribbon, and $1,190 in cash...
...curtain of Manhattan's City Center opened on a ballet set-a large, white Chopin medallion suspended like a full moon against velvety blackness- but the first figure the audience saw, a hefty man in swallowtail coat, headed across the stage to play Chopin on a grand piano. Yet it was a ballet after all, a new one called The Concert. Made up of Choreographer Jerome (Peter Pan) Robbins' irreverent ideas of what might go on in a listener's wandering mind during a musical evening, it turned out to be the funniest farce in a blue...
...candy-sucking bobby-soxers, a long-legged young thing who practically climbed into the piano in her love of music (Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq), a bored couple and, finally, a young fellow who trampled all the other concertgoers while trying to find his seat. At that point the Chopin medallion zoomed up into the flies and madness descended...
...Kansas turkey and an 18-ft. Christmas tree, of his three grandchildren caroling O Come, All Ye Faithful for a crowd of press photographers; of his First Lady, in a red dress, showing off one of the presents she received before church on Christmas morning, a gold-star medallion inscribed on one side "To Mamie" and on the other "For never-failing help since 1916-in calm and in stress, in dark days and in bright-Love...
...sign to signify his victory that day over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck off in the U.S. Mint, bearing a likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait of him. On its opposite side, a citation flanked a design of clasped hands between British and U.S. shields: "Presented . . . on behalf of his millions of admiring friends in the United States...