Word: wreathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral of Hungarian Premier and Field Marshal Julius Combos in Budapest last week King Edward sent a wreath composed of one thousand roses...
Meanwhile a young Swiss Fascist wag, made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreaths on Swiss Fascist was made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreath on Swiss monuments. He even fooled the Permanent Italian League of Nations Delegate, Signor Bova-Scoppa, who used to be stationed in Addis Ababa. Last week Delegate Bova-Scoppa responded courteously when accosted on the street...
...Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research, she had discovered that Martha Washington was "a thorough housekeeper, looking after every detail of household affairs, with a bunch of keys always hanging by her side." To pay homage to such desirable virtues, the A. C. W. W. laid a wreath on the first First Lady's tomb, ignored her husband...
Imperial Garden Party, Bright & early next morning a round hundred admirers of Haile Selassie gathered in Whitehall to see him lay a wreath on the Cenotaph honoring Britain's War dead. With dogged British grit they waited all morning and all afternoon until finally dispersed by a thunderstorm. All through the day Haile Selas sie had been demanding that the Foreign Office accord him "official permission" to lay the wreath which meanwhile drooped and withered in his hallway. Captain An thony Eden's subordinates had kept insisting all day that His Majesty should merely apply to Scotland Yard...
Some publicity stunts that Pressagent Fellows tells about: sending an elephant to lay a wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating...