Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters, barred from the proceedings, heard the meeting open with song but were unable to learn which was sung first, "America Is Going Dry" or "White Ribbon Vibrations...
...Bernie Blue Ribbon Malt...
When William Ziff first entered the field Negro papers carried little national advertising except hair-straightener, a few cosmetics, patent medicines. Now the list includes Camel cigarets, Bond Bread. Rumford Baking Powder, Bayer's Aspirin, Blue Ribbon Malt, Gillette Razors, Lifebuoy Soap...
...their territory Capt. Pabst had taken over the company and had his name painted over its portals. Capt. Pabst was an epicure, would rather sip good wine than quaff beer. So it was a proud day in the Pabst Corp. when one of their brews won the blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair. So pleased were the Pabsts that they called their leading brew after the Blue Ribbon which they attached to every bottle. When near beer brought lean days a blue strip of paper supplanted the silk ribbon but Pabst stuck to its trademark...
...their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock Horse Show. Republican Bacon's wife won two ribbons for table decorations at the Westbury Flower Show. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune reported the Whitney campaign on its society page. The Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation...