Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many petitioners belong to the Confraternity of St. Christopher, have a medal inscribed: "Gaze upon St. Christopher, then go your way reassured." The medal carries an image of St. Christopher crossing a turbulent river with the Christ Child on his shoulder. In the background, as on a river bank, is an old-fashioned touring car with a long wheelbase, rakish fenders. Motorists tack the medal on the dashboards of their cars or above the windshield. Others carry the medal as a pocket piece...
...lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia. A bulletin board replaces the radiator grid...
...foundering near a reef. This time Terry behaves like a hero. He crawls into the fire box of the Narcissus to repair the boiler so that the tug can pull the Glacier Queen out of danger. The film ends with Terry recovering from his burns and wear ing a medal. The steamship company has bought back the Narcissus for Annie and she is reconciled with...
Winner of the hog-calling championship at an Arkansas county fair was Harvey Crowley Couch, R. F. C. board member. Asked how he won the medal, he said: "The 'sooey' system. I used to 'sooey' home the hogs on my father's farm when I was a boy. There's a knack to the 'sooey' of course, and the 'cooey' and these newfangled calls can't approach it, once you've got it down...
...places on P. A. A.'s lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer of the U. S. S. Vixen, got a Congressional Medal and a gold sword for battling the Barbary pirates. Great-grandfather John Trippe commanded the U. S. S. John Trippe, smallest sloop in the battle of Lake Erie. The present U. S. S. John Trippe sports two gold stars on its funnel for sinking two German submarines. Lately it patrolled...