C.B.E.
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But he has met her son, when Morgan was awarded a C.B.E., this year, for services to drama.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016
We were in Kansas City for the C.B.E.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2012
David Bowie said no to a C.B.E. in 2000 because, he explained, “I seriously don’t know what it’s for.”
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012
His chief of staff: tough, pug-faced Air Commodore George R. Beamish, C.B.E., onetime boxing and golf champion of the R.A.F.
From Time Magazine Archive
C.B.E., who was its commandant from its inception to the end of the war.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor
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