Word: cenotaphs
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...visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. ¶ In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought. ¶ In Aix-les-Bains, the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, away from his post on leave, laid a wreath on a French cenotaph...
...gesture, Nazi Rosenberg laid at Britain's cenotaph to her War dead a wreath marked with a swastika and bound with the imperial colors. Hardly was his back turned than some one snipped off the swastika. Shortly thereafter one Captain J. E. Sears removed the wreath itself, was fined 40 shillings in police court. Claridge's Hotel, where Nazi Rosenberg was staying, was in constant turmoil with Communists demonstrating outside the door, mysterious strangers distributing leaflets in the lobby...
With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...
...many months after the Haig funeral, King-Emperor George V caught the pneumonia of which he nearly died, while officiating hatless in the rain before Britain's Cenotaph, on last Armistice...
Over the mantelpiece in the Officers' Club, there hangs a photograph showing several of its War-veteran members standing with their flag before the Empire's most sacred military shrine?the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Proudly erect and tall beside the flag bearer stands Captain Barker, wearing seven decorations, including the D. S. O. Last week in Andover the Captain's former valet, one Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about...