Congress created the Medal of Honor in 1861-62 and posthumously awarded it to some of the Raiders (James Andrews, leader of the raiders, was not in the military and therefore not eligible).On the way, he learns about her past and why she is called he ""lady from Shanghai."" Speaking partly in the third-person, she ells him about her seedy past - she is a White Russian that she was born in Chifu, on the China coast, where she probably lived a compromised, naughty life as a high-class prostitute:Elsa: Her parents were Russian, white Russian.A serious, nervous, hard-working, bookish and bespectacled museum paleontologist named Dr.David Huxley (Cary Grant, playing a character in part modeled after silent comedian Harold Lloyd) is attempting to finish the reconstruction of the brontosaurus skeleton.Sally: First of all, I am notwithyou.And second of all, it is none of your business why we broke up.Harry: You""re right, you""re right.I don""t want to know.Sally: Well, if you must know, it was because he was very jealous and I had these Days of the Week underpants.