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Following the awards, the youngsters were marched around the plaza in single file to be given booklets on proper bicycle riding and pins and stickpins by St. Onge and individual bricks of ice cream donated by the Sanitary Ice Cream company.
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Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
The first, who wore a fedora and a crystal stickpin in his jacket, made his way inside and pulled out a .38 handgun.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
Soon, it's joined by other items—a stickpin, a lock, a AA battery, a thumbtack—as Hunter undertakes a daring and increasingly dangerous mission of self-reconstitution.
—Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2020
The daily briefing begins at 6 a.m. There’s a long desk with a pair of computer monitors and, on the wall, a large map decorated with stickpins.
—David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
As a further token of their host’s esteem, each male guest also received a gold watch and a diamond stickpin.
—Daniel Stashower, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
Men’s prizes included gold stickpins and a box of cigars, and for the winner of the men’s swimming race, Hoyle Pounds, a bathing suit.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 July 2018
On Luis Crespo, Brooks Brothers Red Fleece tie; Dreicer & Co. vintage 1890 stickpin.
—Oprah Winfrey and Quiara Alegria Hudes, Town & Country, 9 May 2018
Jim Beam presented my grandfather with a diamond studded stickpin.
—Tony Sachs, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
The first, who wore a fedora and a crystal stickpin in his jacket, made his way inside and pulled out a .38 handgun.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
Soon, it's joined by other items—a stickpin, a lock, a AA battery, a thumbtack—as Hunter undertakes a daring and increasingly dangerous mission of self-reconstitution.
—Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2020
The daily briefing begins at 6 a.m. There’s a long desk with a pair of computer monitors and, on the wall, a large map decorated with stickpins.
—David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
As a further token of their host’s esteem, each male guest also received a gold watch and a diamond stickpin.
—Daniel Stashower, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
Men’s prizes included gold stickpins and a box of cigars, and for the winner of the men’s swimming race, Hoyle Pounds, a bathing suit.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 July 2018
On Luis Crespo, Brooks Brothers Red Fleece tie; Dreicer & Co. vintage 1890 stickpin.
—Oprah Winfrey and Quiara Alegria Hudes, Town & Country, 9 May 2018
Jim Beam presented my grandfather with a diamond studded stickpin.
—Tony Sachs, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
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stickpin
noun
stick·pin
ˈstik-ˌpin 
: an ornamental pin worn in a necktie
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