Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aspect is impressive, a fine broad forehead, a jutting chin, sharp eyes, hair steely grey. His manner is positive bravado, his voice stentorian, his cigars black. His apostolic jewels are a magnificent row of decorations: from the U. S. a Silver Star (citation in orders); from France, the bronze Medal of Verdun and the cross of the Legion of Honor; the cross of the Crown of Italy, the medal of the Defenders of Poland and the cross of Poland Restored; and from the White Russians, the Order of the Compassionate Heart. His pronouncements, issued with passionate conviction, are oratorical...
...Chicago, President O. C. Hulett of the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club announced that the diamond-studded gold medal for the best lie of the year had been awarded to Vern L. Osborn of Centralia, Wash. Vern L. Osborn's lie: ' was hunting one day with a mule that I had trained especially for trailing jack rabbits. The chase led to a thousand-foot precipice. The rabbit was going so fast it plunged over the brink...
...Into President Roosevelt's office went John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society, followed by a delegation of 21. There one of the delegates hung around Mr. Roosevelt's neck a medal for promoting friendliness and co-operation among American countries. Said the President: "It is with the greatest appreciation, that I receive from your hands the medal of the Pan-American Society, particularly because it comes to me from an institution which was formed over 22 years...
...some ultra-modern screeching. But Stokowski was not out for publicity when he made his peerless transcriptions of Bach. For years he presented them anonymously. He took infinite pains with the Youth Concerts and gave his services. No one was surprised when he received the first Philadelphia Award (a medal and $10,000), for outstanding civic service...
After a spokesman delivers an address in the new, Stockholm Concert House, telling why the awards in each academy are made, the king will bestow upon the winners the embossed diploma, gold medal, and check, emblems of the prize. At a dinner in the evening, the winners make informal speeches, while later in the week they attend a banquet given in the royal palace...