Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down from the bridge by weary but exuberant Captain Tarabotto: "Notwithstanding great part of crossing hindered by strong opposite winds and heavy fog, Rex beats all preceding records as to speed as well as to time spent in crossing Atlantic Ocean. . . . Such result entitles the Rex to the blue ribbon...
...King's yacht steamed last week through the open gate, breaking a red, white and blue ribbon, but the caisson did not drop behind it. The King in his Admiral-of-the-Fleet uniform led Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of York down the gangway to a royal box on the quay. He made a speech calling the dry dock a good thing. Chairman Gerald...
...Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue...
Alongside the blue ribbon of Pabst was flaunted the white ribbon of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in beery Milwaukee last week. For the 59th time, the W. C. T. U. was holding its annual convention...
...dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...