Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones Jr., went four times around the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club course in a total of 302 strokes. Had he been alive to do this in 1902, he would have won the U. S. Open Championship by five strokes.* But, at 22, his reward was the qualifying medal of the national intercollegiate golf tournament...
...meticulously observant and took obvious pleasure in relating how he found Pastor Straton in bed late in the afternoon, "clad in an old-fashioned night shirt. . . . From a gas jet at the head of the bed hung Dr. Straton's black waistcoat, from which dangled the medal he won in a college oratorical contest many years...
...full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while 250,000 humans watched Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith pin upon Colonel Lindbergh...
...will be asked to journey to the "Summer White House" in the Black Hills of South Dakota, so that President Coolidge may personally bestow upon him the Distinguished Flying Cross. When Congress convenes in December, he will probably be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...