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...President Hoover for 15 minutes. President Hoover called formally on President-elect Olaya for 13 minutes. He was No. 1 guest at a State dinner at the White House, at another at Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson. He got a presidential salute at Annapolis, laid a wreath on the Washington tomb at Mt. Vernon, wreathed the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery. He was ceremoniously lunched at the Pan-American Union...
Ceremonious was the Gold Star leavetaking. Airplanes dropped poppies. Ziegfeld chorus girls sent a great wreath. Mothers carried forget-me-not nosegays, waved little U. S. flags. Bands played. Chief of Staff Summerall read a parting message from Acting Secretary of War Davison ("Go, therefore, not in sorrow but in pride").* Tiny stars of real gold were distributed by Paul Chapman, head of U. S. Lines. Tugs tooted and forts banged out salutes as the America...
...daughter seemed flushed with excitement. Amid cheers they entered the church, he in faultless morning clothes, she in a sleek white satin dress trailing to her ankles, shoulder length white kid gloves, and a superb lace bridal veil the gift of the Italian Senate, this surmounted by a narrow wreath of orange blossoms. Bride Edda's bouquet was an armful of roses white as snowballs...
...there sailed also on the De Grasse 40 musicians of a different color. They carried no fiddles, no trumpets. They were Negro singers, members of the Hampton Institute Choir (Hampton, Va.) bound for London where they will sing under the patronage of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and place a wreath on the tomb of David Livingstone in memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction for its singing...
...people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." But, says Author Linderman, when the U. S. declared war against Germany, Plenty-coups urged his young men to enlist. The Government recognized his patriotism, chose him to lay the Indian wreath on the Unknown Soldier's grave at Arlington...