Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official observance of the day began with a line-up in the Palace of Royal servants 20 years or more in service. Representing the four "peoples" of the British Isles?English, Welsh, Irish, Scotch?they stood with proud, palpitating breasts ready to receive the King's silver "faithful service" medal. A little painfully, for his fingers are not so nimble as before his illness, George V pinned and pinned...
...from the other high guns; listening to other gun ners marvel at his easy style (not hunched up and strangling the gun like more ner vous men), his steadiness, his fourth triumph. Afterwards they helped him carry home his share of the $9,900 worth of prizes - a diamond medal...
...Paris taxi driver noticed in another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...
...result of the preliminaries of the contest for the medal France-Amerique, six men were chosen last night to speak in the finals to be held the last week in May. The men selected were: Gregory Stone '30, G. W. Sands '30, R. M. Kellogg '30, E. C. Tatham '30, L. R. Shulman '32, and Jacob Canter...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in Sever 36; the preliminaries of the oratorical contest for the medal France-Amerique will be held, when a large group of speakers will give five-minute addresses in French on any French subject...