Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the hearse of Stefan Raditch, walked, according to the lowest cabled estimates, slightly over 1% of the population of Jugoslavia.* At the climax of this prodigious demonstration, a wreath of thorns was laid upon the grave. From the wreath dangled, on a golden wire, the Serbian bullet which killed Croat Raditch...
...Upon the centre of the rainsoaked grave of Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...Berlin the speaker's rostrum of the Reichstag was surmounted with a wreath of laurel leaves, to honor Painter-Goldsmith-Etcher Albrecht Dürer. Upon the desk of the President of the Reichstag stood, for a day, the Christ-like portrait which Artist Dürer painted of himself...
...second laurel wreath was placed upon the grave of Dürer, in St. John...
Cemetery, Nuremberg, last week, by Common Councilman Herr Doktor Wagner. Drawing a deep breath, he declared: "Proudly Nuremberg calls him Son and Master in the same breath! Today we place a wreath upon this silent hill. Ach! Vita brevis, ars aeterna [Oh, Life is short (but), Art eternal...