C.B.E.
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David Bowie turned down an award naming him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or C.B.E., in 2000 because, he explained, “I seriously don’t know what it’s for.”
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023
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
The artist Lucian Freud did not want a C.B.E. in 1977.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2012
Captain L. E. H. Maund, C.B.E., a few senior officers and a picked skeleton crew stayed aboard.
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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