Word: medals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, Pope Pius offered a medal to that one of the Catholic Women's Diocesan Clubs that would evolve the most attractive modest fashion in women's clothing. The Clubs had inaugurated a campaign against immodest dress. The Pontiff's competition is divided into two parts: 1) a theoretic demonstration that immodest dress is silly, barbaric, uncultivated; 2) actual dress designs...
...received this year the Kelvin Gold Medal from) the Royal Society, at the Kelvin Centenary in London, "in recognition of his preeminence in those branches of engineering with which Baron Kelvin's* scientific work and researches were identified...
...James H. Dillard), an educator (John Hope, President of Morehouse College), and an editor (W. E. DuBois of The Crisis'), awards a prize to "an American of African descent who has performed the highest achievement in some form of human endeavor." This prize is known as the Spingarn medal...
Buffalo Invitation. At Buffalo, N. Y., Glenna Collett collected. Since that now-famed Buffalo women's invitation tournament was first held (1922), Glenna has twice collected at Buffalo. Prize packages for Glenna this year were the low medal (won in 80) and pretty Edith Cummings, Empress of the nation's links (done 6 and 5 in the final). Empress Edith shaved the women's course record to 78 in Round...
Trans-Mississippi. At St. Joseph, Mo., James Manion of St. Louis made himself Trans-Mississippi champion by scotching Eddie Held, defender, on the 36th green of a sizzling semifinal; by smothering Lawson Watts, fellow townsman, 11 and 10 next day. Held left St. Joseph with the qualifying medal. It was his for 144 strokes, one of which sufficed him for the entire 13th hole...