Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Napoleon's observation that a soldier will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic did not mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...
...Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling from a black ribbon...
Nancy Ann Abbott leaves statistics to her business manager and partner, A. L. Rowland. She is usually incredulous when she hears her doll production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...
Miami > Said Chaplain Morison: "A bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon coming out of the desert is quite a treat." Obviously Southern Baptist Morison meant a treat to tourists, not himself...
...special formation held in the toys; of Germanic Museum on Wednesday morning, 8 December, the following 11 civilian employees of the Chaplain School were awarded the Army Service Forces Ribbon for faithful and meritorious service by Chaplain William D. Cleary, Commandant: Lydis S. Belless E Louise Beng, Edith V. Bradley, Mary Geraldine Cox, Charles Demetropolis, Marie Flarrel, Marjovie L. Goodrich, Adele N. Haggman, Evalyn Leots Hargen, Mary T. Renneberry, N. Jane Hell, Clare E. McGowan, Leonora A. Maroney, Ruth Mafas, Estherine B. Murray, Georgs T. Myles, Adele Paniser, Shirley Ann Shields, Mary Stepico, Sylvia Sugarman, Maribe Wilson, Evangeline M. Zollars...