Word: wreath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Artfully translated by Arthur Waley the first four parts of Lady Murasaki's 900-year-old Japanese masterpiece, Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
...Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe's sarcophagus: The United States of America in commemoration...
...Confirmed the appointment of Joseph Clark Grew, Ambassador to Turkey, to be Ambassador to Japan. ¶Adopted a House resolution authorizing the Congress to place a wreath on the grave of George Washington's mother...
After laying a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington, Father Cox mustered his army, started on the 300-mi. trip back to Pittsburgh. (Expenses for returning 276 stragglers by train were defrayed by Pennsylvania's richest citizen, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.) Again, as they rumbled by, grave crowds watched them as though for the first time they were seeing a genuine sign of the times...
...title page of Pictorial Review, on each sheet of its letterhead, is a rococo device: a scroll with the numeral "13" and a pencil, surrounded by a wreath. That trademark was adopted by a German named William Paul Ahnelt shortly after he founded Pictorial Review 32 years ago. It symbolized the $13 capital with which he started his dress pattern business upon coming to the U. S. Last week Founder Ahnelt. 67, sold his magazine, long rumored "for sale," but for how much more than $13, he did not reveal...