Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department has recommended, and Congress is planning, suitable guerdons for the hardy fliers who recently circumaviated the earth. A bill before Congress proposes making the Lieutenants, Majors; the Sergeants, First Lieutenants; giving each $10,000 and a Congressional Medal of Honor. The War Department, announcing a list of belated citations for gallantry in the Spanish American War, named Lieut. John J. Pershing (now General retired) to be honored with a silver star. The frigate Constitution, several times near destruction, saved once by Oliver Wendell Holmes' Old Ironsides, is suffering from the decay of age. Rear Admiral de Steiguer made...
Deliberations followed. It was decided to give an Academy gold medal to Walter Hampden, actor, "for good diction on the stage"; an Institute gold medal to Edith Wharton, author, for her achievements in fiction. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, son-in-law of Mark Twain, late Academician, played for the session. In the absence of Professor William Milligan Sloane, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chancellor, presided...
...first prize this year was won by the new Saks building, 49th to 50th Streets on the East side of Fifth Avenue. The prize consists of a gold medal and diploma. The building is in the English Renaissance style...
...thought he had already won every prize possible for the Academy to give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze at this last straw dropped so courteously on his already prodigious load of honors. The present portrait, painted several years ago, previously won the Philadelphia Art Club Gold Medal, though it has never before been exhibited in Manhattan. His pictures hang in over 20 museums. In 1920 alone, he received 25 important medals. Among his best-known pictures are: Church at Old Lyme, Isles of Shoals, June Idylle, A Rainy Night, Gloucester Harbor...
...winners in both of the two classes will be awarded silver cups by the Union, and the runner up will receive a silver medal. Cups and medals will be placed on exhibition in the Union as soon as the tournament starts. Play will begin next Monday and will probably continue for two weeks or more, depending on the number of men who enter...