Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book written for one class of people, and one class only for those in whose hearts lives the love of Christmas for its own sake. To those few who do not have this love, to those for whom the lighted shop windows decorated with holly and red ribbon hold no thrill, the pungent odor of the Christmas trees no memories, and the clear, sweet sound of the Christmas carols no dreams, these stories will mean little they will be merely well-written sentimentality...
...that Miss Morrow was apparently not offended by the reporters, there remains the fact that these reporters are among the best in New York. The ship-news assignment is coveted in Manhattan shops. The men who get it can, if any ever could, tie up their togas with blue ribbon...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...
...Three years ago, he began to buy horses. Last week, four of these-Temptation, Preston Mavis, Myrtle Fashion and Sensation-pulled the high coach around the ring. James Franceschini, wearing a checked suit, a derby, a large cigar, and a diamond knuckle, watched them win the blue ribbon. It happened to be the 108th prize which his horses have taken in the last four shows that they have entered...
...pilot you ever saw!" Whereupon he returned to the Yankee Doodle to salvage yet a third conqueror of the airs above the continent It was none other than the ship's mascot?a "hot dog" skillfully converted by the deft use of toothpicks for legs and tail and a ribbon about the neck into an esthetic complement...