Word: wreathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...
Sullivan and two of his sons had difficulty in delivering the gifts and waited in the Statler's lobby while members of the dance committee questioned their credentials. One of them threatened to "punch the nose" of anyone who tried to take the wreath and canaries, last-minute substitutes for the doves of peace, upstairs to the ball room. When Sullivan showed his card as a Councilman he was told he should be ashamed of himself...
Objections were finally stilled with the arrival of Edward Kaufman, chairman of the dance committee, and James Sullivan, the Councilman's oldest son, presented the wreath from the Independents and released the three canaries from the box on the band platform
...Paris ever had a thinner time than Herr Ribbentrop. There was no public acclamation for him. The police scarcely let his top hat come into public view. So numerous were the guards around the Arc de Triomphe when Herr Ribbentrop, wearing the German Iron Cross, laid a swastika-decorated wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier, that few saw this unprecedented ceremony...