Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along the Champs Elysees tall flagpoles appeared, to be followed by other tall flagpoles along the Grands Boulevards. American and French flags began to flap in thousands on both the Left and Right bank of the Seine. The government announced that a silver medal would be struck in honor of the Legion's visit. Out came the bunting and the banners of welcome all over the city. Signposts in English would direct the former doughboys to the sights of Paris. And immediately those sights began to take on colorful decorations. From base to summit the Eiffel Tower would...
...thousand bouncing, snatching girls battled grimly last week on Manhattan playgrounds for a gold medal. They battled with small rubber balls and tiny iron "jacks."- Under the fatherly eye of the New York World, which was also cocked toward circulation, metropolitan girlhood was summoned to a tournament for the jacks championship of the city. Some squatted, some kneeled, some sat tailor-fashion in the dust. Each one spread her ten jacks, bounced her rubber ball and snatched up one jack, caught her ball, bounced her ball, snatched up another, a third, until she had ten; again she spread (technical term...
Seibert. One of the veterans in Detroit was John S. Seibert. In Cuba he offered to nurse seven U. S. soldiers who had smallpox or yellow fever. For this he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. When a patient, one Andrew Gould, was dying, he left a message with John Seibert who, 27 years later, found the family of Gould, delivered the message. After the World War, Veteran Seibert organized the first post of the A.E.F., named it for Quentin Roosevelt, son of his oldtime friend and commander...
...until last week was it discovered that when Charles Augustus Lindbergh came home from Europe he brought with him a golden medal inscribed on one side: "To the High Protector of the International League of Aviators"; on the other side: "To President Coolidge from the King of the Belgians...
...that Rob Jones has given up swearing (audibly) after bad shots, now that he no longer eats pie á la mode during tournaments, now that he has twice won every major title except the British amateur and established medal-play records unapproached in history, it is interesting to learn that he?...