Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hourless clock, a leafless wreath...
Clara Barrus, the old naturalist's informally adopted daughter, who mothered him through his last lonely years, now weaves a memorial wreath from leaves of his Journals. The book is good, eminently readable, the true record of a long and many-colored life...
...prize. The Italian flag went up; the U. S. protest was allowed at 8 in the evening. British newspapers scored the decision of the committee; the Queen of England gave each of the runners a bronze medal, and the king from nearby Windsor sent each one an oak wreath...
...honor of famed Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Borutski wished his name to be Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the son of famed Theodore Roosevelt, aviator who was killed by Germans in France. To France, Theodore Borutski wished to send his iron cross that it might be laid together with a wreath upon the grave of Quentin Roosevelt...
...some 7,000 of its citizens met to see the presentation of a marble bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti to the city by the Archontic Order of the Ahepa, Greek-American patriotic society, 3,500 visiting Ahepans paraded for two miles. Greek Aviator Nick Manteris, of Detroit, dropped a memorial wreath...