Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four minutes to two by the Cabinet room clock as President Roosevelt sat down at the head of the long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added...
Beer of 3.2% compares as follows with famed pre-Prohibition brews: Pabst Blue Ribbon, 2.9%; Schlitz Pale, 3.1%; Anheuser-Busch Budweiser, 3.8%; Cream City Pilsener, 3.3%; Blatz Muenchener, 3.5%; Hammond Muehlhauser...
...boar, under the invigorating influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their...
...Hamsey, an English Springer Spaniel who had barely beaten out famed old English Setter Blue Dan of Happy Valley for best gun dog. The ribs and muscles of snow-white Greyhound Boveway Beau Brummel, best hound, looked like delicately chiseled marble. His kinky jet hair and the crimson ribbon on his topknot made French Poodle Whippendell Poli of Carillon, best non-sporting dog, look like a Harlem belle. The sixth dog was a magnificent black & tan Airedale, Warland Protector of Shelterock, best terrier, just arrived in the U. S. after a long string of victories in England. A good Airedale...
...After duty at Warsaw in 1922, Boal was sent to Berne, Switzerland, and to Lima, Peru. In 1929 his appointment was made as Acting Secretary General of the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation, Bolivia and Paraguay, which sat in Washington. He has been awarded the Lafayette Flying Corps ribbon, the Legion of Order of the Sun (Peru), and Order of St. Sava (Jugoslavia...