Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert's three-masted schooner Atlantic (303 tons), stayed in the harbor below the bridge. Her Harvard-alumnus owner, wearing an old panama with a blue ribbon, bought 18 observation-car tickets for himself and guests, smiled when the conductor counted them twice. Scattered along the course were most of the boats that started two days later for the race to Bermuda. Governor Cross of Connecticut was on a Navy cutter anchored near the finish. Notably absent...
...rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...
...draw more tears than any of Ann Harding's other recent martyrdoms is due to Director Alfred Santell's clever use of his whole bag of tricks, including "asides" and sequences of "narratage." Typical shot: Vergie Winters, when little Joan runs into the shop, tying a yellow ribbon in the child's hair...
...Japanese warship: "The enemy's squadron has been sighted at point No. 203. The enemy is apparently steering toward the Eastern passage." About 2 p.m. a grizzled little man who had studied at Britain's Greenwich Naval College and well knew the Nelson tradition hoisted a fluttering ribbon of flags to the truck of his flagship...
...rights. One prominent Habsburg was in Vienna last week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass meeting last week, the Princess wearing a little Styrian hat with the Heimwehr feather and green ribbon. Speaking rapidly in German with a British accent she said: ''The Heimwehr is our opportunity. We have real leaders now. The best thing we can do is to go along with them-for Austria and for the Fatherland, with a whole heart and with all our love...