Word: ribboning
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...judges had the dogs lined up now; they called out War Bride and Governor Moscow for a last turn, conferred a moment, came forward with a blue ribbon. "Who's getting it-the bitch?" queried dog-fanciers, craning their necks. No, for War Bride was back in line. It was Gov- ernor Moscow; he was the champion of champions. For the first time in over 25 years, a pointer had won the Kennel Club show...
...June afternoon in Tennessee, a man was talking Smoothly the ribbon of his voice unrolled, with here and there a knot. When, these knots came, his hearers stirred and looked at each other; sometimes they burst out clapping, some times they merely nodded their heads. They were alumni of Fisk University, Negro college of Nashville, Tennessee. He who addressed them was Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisk graduate. He had taken this opportunity (it was Commencement Day, 1924) to bring certain painful things to their attention, he said...
They crossed the Kansas cornlands and the badlands and the Rockies. Hauled by panting locomotives, they crossed the desert and crawled up into the Sierras. Then they dropped down to the ribbon of shore at the edge of the Pacific. There they rested-those football playing men of Missouri, in Los Angeles, City of the Angels, until Christmas Day, when they girded up their loins and went into a stadium to do holiday violence to the men of Southern California...
Died. Brian G. Hughes, bank president and practical joker, in Monroe, N. Y. Once he entered a ten cent tomcat in a national show, won a blue ribbon...
...sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some of the precious helium, before the ship could be maneuvered into position against the platform where the President and Mrs. Coolidge were standing. "I christen thee Los Angeles," cried Mrs. Coolidge and pulled a ribbon which released a flock of pigeons. Fastened to the pigeons' legs were quotations from St. Luke and references to angels. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, scripturally minded always, had found therein the name for the ship-not a fighting ship, but a messenger of good will. Other cities...