Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual arrival was on Monday, the Queen Mary docking almost exactly five days after she sailed, but the fact that she did not on her maiden voyage win the Blue Ribbon had been discounted not only days but months and years in advance by Sir Percy Elly Bates, Cunard White Star's long-jawed Flintshire chairman, whose gold spectacles have such long frames that the lenses rest on the very tip of his long nose, and whose jutting jaw makes his friends call him "Chin" Bates. Much like the late great Calvin Coolidge in the dryness of his remarks...
Greatest honor the U. S. can bestow is the Congressional Medal of Honor, a five-pointed gold star, swinging from a bar on which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates...
...When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened play by cutting a crepe-paper ribbon, then whipped the lopsided ball she has used for 33 years down the alley for a strike...
...near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor and an expansive manner, he set himself up in the automobile bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes-cheap necklaces and silk stockings-in boxes of candy sold in Paris theatres. When the Government stopped this...
Slowly the giant overhead lights of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden dimmed. Across a bright lattice of wavering spotlights glided a tiny girl in an abbreviated costume of red & gold, a ribbon fluttering saucily in her hair. In the centre of the ice, her sturdy little legs suddenly twinkled into the first steps of a mazurka. Then she swung into a Lutz jump, a Jackson-Haynes spin, glided backward the length of the rink in a fadeaway stop. To lay observers, this brief turn was not remarkable. For experts it was an exercise in sheer genius, the climax...