Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman of a committee organizing 114 Aviation Country Clubs throughout the country. Each daughter received a gold medal with her name...
...astonishing reports came to the locker room. Jones had taken seven on two par4 holes. Incredible as it seemed, Jones, teeing off at the 18th, had already played 75 shots, the worst round of his medal championship career...
...Espinosa went first professional money, $1,000; to Amateur Jones, a gold medal. Between the next 19 professionals was divided...
...world's flyers who did enterprising work last year, the International Aeronautic Federation, meeting at Copenhagen last week, chose Bert Hinkler as having accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...
...daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before the assembled military. In Berlin, posing as Prince Adalbert, third son of the onetime Kaiser, he obtained 100,000 marks from a diamond merchant. In Holland he appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom...