Word: wreath
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...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...
...first gesture, Chairman Kahn cabled last week to the Mayor of Vienna, asked him in behalf of the U. S. to place a birthday wreath in the Schubert house...
Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...
Nine cities in the South and West were included in the whilwind Christmas trip of the University Instrumental Clubs, whose concerts were heard by large and enthusiastic audiences in every stopping place. The outstanding feature of the trip was the placing of a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery, Washington. This ceremony, attended by a large part of the men on the trip, was performed by T. D. Howe '28, president of the clubs...