Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joys you bring to us Come bouncing back to yon! Earlier in the week Mrs. Hutton had gone to the White House, where Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, as honorary chairman of the Women's National Council of the U. S. Flag Association, pinned a medal on her for "conspicuous service" in educational crusading against crime, made her a "Lady of the Flag." Walking through Manhattan's Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were...
...Charles Penrose Rushton Coodet son, grandson and son-in-law of British admirals, strode the bridge of H. M. S. Peacock and trained his guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained...
...never paid, but Mr. Gould, who has hotel properties in Nice, used to say, "Never mind, the casino makes the resort." It also made the six other baccarat casinos in Nice, including that owned by the city, furious. Mr. Gould liked the Palais so well that he had a medal struck in white gold for the architect. He liked the medal so well that he had a second one struck for Mrs. Gould...
Lawrence Binyon, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1933-34, has been chosen a member of the committee to select the winner of a poetry medal to be awarded by the King of England...
Last week the Ornithologists' Union found itself once more honoring this same bird-lover. To him went the Brewster Medal for the year's best book on American birds. The prize was awarded for a revised edition of his Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, first published...