Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give some 50 recitals. At the end of last season Argentina underwent an appendectomy, a proceeding dangerous for a dancer none too young. Special care was taken not to cut a muscle and she is just as agile as before. Her great pride this year is the little red ribbon which she wears on every coat, every dress. It is the emblem of the Legion of Honor given her the past summer for her distinguished achievement in art plus her generosity to French charities. She might also be proud of her U. S. schedule this season. Few individual artists...
...have his silky mustache trimmed, Joseph Jacques Césaire Marshal Joffre entered his favorite Paris barber shop last week, wearing only one ribbon, that of the Médail le Militaire...
Monday at Reno is known as "graduation day" because on that day divorces are handed. Some women pay an extra $2 to have their decrees certified and tied up with an official ribbon. Only mythical is the tradition that a divorced woman on leaving the Washoe County courthouse gratefully kisses a pillar of its colonnade. Monday night the Reno station is crowded with happy ladies catching the Union Pacific's Limited east to Chicago and a new freedom...
...Yost, a good job with the Federal Radio Commission. Her elevation in the Republican National Committee plainly foreshadowed a party effort to hold in line all the women who had voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928 on the theory that he was Dry, to conduct another vigorous "white ribbon" campaign this year...
Jeanne Lanvin-Again Greek and Egyptian evening dresses, leg o' mutton sleeves and rudimentary bustles. Whole dresses of ribbon and chenille on net. Intricate sleeves, much button trimming. Coats flared from the shoulder rather than belted...