Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Officials of Dayton accompanied Colonel Lindbergh while he visited the National Military Home to shake hands with veterans, while he placed a wreath on the grave of Wilbur Wright, while he attended a dinner given in his honor at which Mayor Allen C. McDonald presided. At this dinner, Mayor McDonald presented the aviator with a scroll, signed by himself, saying, "From the Citizens of Dayton ... on the occasion of his official visit ... as an evidence of their appreciation...
...Curtea de Arges, the Dowager Queen Marie broke down completely, and sobbed aloud, swooned. She recovered at last, sufficiently to lay upon the grave a wreath of lilies, which she had picked herself, and a large pillow of white roses sent from Paris by Prince Carol. Near her there stood during the ceremony her son-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, her brother-in-law, Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns...
...Caesar thrice offered emperor's wreath, no Macbeth thrice foredoomed to kingship ever proved so obdurate against election as has Dr. Horace Percy Silver, thrice designated bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thrice scornful of the honor. Dr. Silver is rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan. He is not to be confused with Jesse Forrest Silver, Free Methodist clergyman of Los Angeles, or with Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland rabbi...
Next .day, he went to church with his mother and President and Mrs. Coolidge, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, visited disabled War veterans at the Walter Reed hospital, made plans for flying to New York early the following morning...
...cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited, meditated, applauded thoughtfully, gave Conductor Furtwangler a wreath and went home full of peace instead of excitement. Perhaps they would see him again in a year; perhaps he would be called somewhere else...