Word: wreath
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...crypt under the Garrison Church, now the Reichstag Building, Old Paul proposed to lay a wreath on the tomb of FREDERICK THE GREAT...
...background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate...
...Coolidge on entering the tomb placed himself alongside the great benefactors of the human race. El National places a wreath of everlasting flowers on his grave...
...David Leigh Colvin, wife of the Prohibition Party's national chairman, began by dumping out a suitcase containing a bottle of milk, a doll, a bunch of grapes, an orange, a pair of baby shoes, a baby's coat, a pair of bedroom slippers. Flourishing a small Christmas wreath, she exclaimed: "If father gets his glass of beer by Christmas, the family will have to give up these things...
...Springfield he laid a wreath on Lincoln's tomb and returned to the Arsenal to sit on the same platform with Len Small, Illinois' unsavory Republican nominee for Governor. The Hoover speech here developed a long and elaborate analogy between the Civil War & 1864 and the economic war & 1932. The President pictured himself standing in Lincoln's shoes when the latter reviewed the retreat of the Union arms. He recalled the Democratic clamor for immediate cessation of hostilities. He continued...