Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paderewski told him one afternoon last week, straightened his pillows, helped him into a faded, favorite bathrobe, and opened the door for a delegation of the American Legion, headed by National Commander John R. McQuigg. They had come to pin on him a Distinguished Service Medal suspended by a ribbon from a gold crossbar containing 74 diamonds...
...boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...
...blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them only a few received the accolade of a brave azure ribbon which, fluttering for a moment from a studded collar, denoted perfection of body, unchallengeable integrity of blood...
Aurora Borealis, a smooth St. Bernard, as faith-inspiring as an advertisement for a life insurance company. While the ribbon was being awarded him, he stared with massive tolerance at the judges as if he had thought of a scornful comment which, out of deference to their feelings, he would keep to himself. Bred by the Hercuveen Kennels...
...graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, she is author of the White Ribbon Hymnal...