Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Ambassador Hotel, the pick of the top-notch U. S. contract bridge players assembled last week to play for the Vanderbilt Cup, blue ribbon U. S. championship for four-man teams. After 5 days of qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four...
...Snakes, contrary to popular supposition, have good vision. Those tested included garter snakes, king snakes, ribbon snakes and rattlesnakes. They see worst just before shedding their skins, best just after shedding, because the snake's cornea grows opaque as shedding time nears and is sloughed off with the skin...
...finger fancy caskets, see demonstrations of pressing the kink out of Negro hair, listen to church choirs and hot bands, munch free handouts or purchase raffle tickets from the 75 booths. No Negro gathering is complete without Joe Louis and he was on hand opening day to cut a ribbon across the door. As usual he was surrounded with admiring pickaninnies who well know his bodyguard's penchant of giving dollar bills to moppets so they will leave Joe alone...
...dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens out under these successive squeezes until it is a hundred-yard ribbon, as flexible as a snake's tongue...
Last week Miss Fields (alias Mrs. Archie Selinger) could well afford the fancy gown and long kid gloves in which she alighted from her limousine at Buckingham Palace. The most famed of 187 persons who had come to receive from the hand of George VI the stars, orders and ribbons awarded in the New Year's Honors (TIME, Jan. 10), she curtsied demurely while the King-Emperor pinned the rose-colored ribbon and the badge of a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...