Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ribbon for the Rifles
...Chaplain Morrison: "It is the nearest thing to the U.S. that you will find in the Near East. Almost everyone speaks English. You'll hear many a Bronx accent. There are nice-looking girls, excellent beaches, and best of all, good cold beer. A bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon coming out of the desert is quite a treat...
There was also an assortment of dingbats that could be used by all who felt the first urgings of the adman's decorative instinct: hands with pointing fingers, flower-&-ribbon arrangements, screaming American eagles. Publishers grabbed up these canned illustrations because they forced advertisers to increase the amount of space they bought or cut down the typographical composition in each ad, and therefore the labor cost. Advertisers used them because they liked them...
Later, in the downtown club, the tall, handsome captain with a North Africa service ribbon on his uniform, was downing a stiff shot of brandy when a saucy, blonde WAC, an acquaintance, came...
...rate actress in second-rate companies," also: 1) pocketed $55,000 for the movie rights to her book; 2) publicly scratched Hollywood's eyes out when it offered her $1,200 a week ("I don't want any part of Hollywood"); 3) turned up as a blue-ribbon cook whose apple pies and chocolate layer cakes had won top prizes at the Michigan and North Carolina State fairs...