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...peered with fervor while the animals danced through their paces. Said Judge William W. Brainard Jr., the Jersey farmer who made the final choice of the best dog: "Believe it or not," said Brainard, "it was a very close decision." After communing with himself he bestowed the blue ribbon on Ch. (for Champion) Puttencove Promise, a pure white standard poodle...
Lemonade Lather. By the molten chocolate ribbon of the mighty Mekong River, Co Ha and the bridegroom whom her father had selected sat down before a long table set out with roast chickens, pig, steaming white rice, and jar after jar of yellow rice wine and white-lightning chum-chum. Despite the wedding finery that set off her lustrous black hair, the bride-to-be sat among the wedding guests blinking back her tears. She had already protested that she did not want to marry the wealthy but middle-aged landowner chosen by her father, that her true love...
...monarch, notes Author Maurois, "owed her five million gold francs" (about three million modern dollars). In her desk, "tied with the thin silk ribbon known as a 'favour,' " Miss Howard cherished the dear evidence-a huge collection of signed receipts, along with impassioned love letters, proposals for "tightening such dear links" (marriage?), promises to "raise her to the position she deserved" (empress...
...charge of the meeting, the President went down the hall to witness the swearing-in of his new Civil Rights Commission. In high good humor Ike insisted on presenting Michigan State's Dr. John Hannah and his five commissioners their "diplomas," i.e., commissions neatly tied in blue ribbon. Then, in more serious vein, he invited them to pull up chairs to hear his own strong hopes for their work in racial relations and to ask questions...
...Forever Glorious." Along with the political consultations came the inescapable demands of international conviviality. At the social climax of the conference, French President René Coty's dinner at the Elysée Palace, Ike appeared resplendent in midnight-blue tails, the red breast ribbon of the Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly...