Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose and easy on the open hand, it bunches a bit when the fist is closed...
Leading contenders for the individual blue ribbon in today's race are Bill Watson of Yale, Dave Little of Princeton, Hal Wonson of Dartmouth, and Cornell's Ranney
...presentation of a foreign Ambassador to the President of the U. S. is usually heavy business, ribboned with red-tape, bound by strictest protocol. But one day last week ribbon and tape went out the White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This...
...Guilinger, a 70year-old horse-&-buggy doctor from the Ohio sticks, announced that he had just refused a foreign-syndicate offer of $37,500 for the bay colt he had bought as a yearling for $3,250. Outstanding two-year-old of 1938, Little Pete, who wears his forelock ribbon-braided like a pickaninny's, has been undefeated in five races this year (he has not lost a heat or once broken his stride, even in scoring). Winner of $47,000 so far this year, and entered in six more rich stakes, he may well become the biggest money...
...other people (her onetime profession), only one on herself, in honor of her visiting friend, the Duchess of Westminster. Hollywood was satisfied when, at a preliminary dinner for 30 intimate friends, Hostess Maxwell put at each lady's plate a live duckling, harnessed in blue and white ribbon...