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First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand Cordon, Medallion of the Rising Sun and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom...
...recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large gold medallion for his mother. But his honors were not over. It was as if the Vatican were bending backwards for Bishop "Frank" Spellman, Fordham graduate, student in Rome, assistant chancellor in the Boston arch diocese, leading U. S. contact man with the Holy See during the past seven years...
...property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house is called "Mostly Hall" because it is that...
Typical products of an age that set a premium on immortality and fame are Pisanello's medallion portraits of the great folk at the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. Although small in scale, through the accuracy of modelling and characterization, they partake of the qualities of monumental works of art. One is apt to remember the sharp profile of Paleologus in the fantastic dress of Byzantium, the appropriately gentle likeness of Cecilia Gonzaga, and the strangely fascinating head of Leonello d'Este. We may see side by side the first proofs in lead and the later casts in bronze...