Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transmit to senator Borah in behalf of the French ex-combatants this history of the War of Independence, together with this medal awarded to one of our comrades for saving the life of one of your officers at the front. He has no further use for it. He restores it to Senator Borah, to whom we owe so many dollars...
...retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?for men over 80, for men over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour...
Died. Charles F. Chandler, 88, winner of the Perkin Medal (gift of organized U. S. Chemistry) in 1920 "for such valuable contributions to Chemistry (especially sugar refining gas manufacture, petroleum refining, photography, dyeing), that he has placed the whole world in his debt," holder of certain honorary degrees never previously conferred on anyone but Edward VII, President of the Health Department of New York City under Mayors Havemeyer and Ely, originator of free vaccination, educator, professor, distinguished and beloved lecturer; from nephritis, at Hartford, Conn...
Last week the Committee of the Henry P. Davison Scholarship Fund announced the names of the three Cantabs (Cambridgers) who will study and play next year in the U. S. At Yale-H. H. Thomas of Sidney, Sussex, winner of the Chancellor's medal for English verse. At Princeton-W. P. N. Edwards, of Corpus Christi able golfer. At Harvard-G. C. R. Ely of Trinity, who recently gained a first in the law tripos...
...went to serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...