Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stable's orange colors to victory in 1930. That was four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover, Pa. A strictly blue-ribbon breeding farm, Hanover Shoe Farms owns such famed stallions as Sandy Flash, Dillon Axworthy, the 1926 Hambletonian winner Guy McKinney, and Shirley Hanover's sire, Mr. McElwyn...
Into the flag-decked station rolled the royal train. King George in the dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
...Spanish Leftists were escaping as best they might. But those fleeing from, captured Bilbao along the coast road toward Santander were treated every few hours to bombardment of the road by such Rightist warships as the Almirante Cervera and Velasco (see map). Torrential rains made the road a sloshy ribbon of mud upon which people screamed, died and were blown to bits as shells came hurtling in from...
...Vanderbilt II and some rich cronies who wanted to motor to their Long Island homes at 40 m.p.h. without scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles of the road together with parts of Jericho Turnpike and Plainview Road...
Onto the parade ground rode the royal procession. King George came first as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadiers, with the bright blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest. Behind rode his aides: the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, the Earls of Athlone and Harewood and Prince Arthur of Connaught, behind them again, a patchwork of bright color, gilt and jangle, all the foreign military attaches. Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled. Princess Elizabeth waved...