Word: wreathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of the embassy, fired stones through a window, tried to haul down the U.S. flag, yelled: "Out with the yanquisl" Shirt-sleeved students gave Butler an angry escort as he drove first to the Ministry of State, then to Marti's statue, where he planted a wreath of yellow dahlias (cost: $50, paid by the Navy) and read an apology in English: "[I wish to express my very profound regret at the unfortunate conduct of several sailors of the U.S. Navy." "Out!" snarled the students as the ambassador's car rolled away. Presently the wreath was torn...
...WREATH OF ROSES (243 pp.)-Elizabeth Taylor-Knopf...
Adventure Enough. In this typical "bit of dialogue, Novelist Elizabeth Taylor skips ahead of the reader to state-and quickly puncture with mockery-the best justification for her novels. A Wreath of Roses is her fourth, and it has the same lightness and speed, the same clairvoyance at catching ripples of feminine feeling, as her first, At Mrs. Lippincote's. Since there is nothing very busty or blustery about all this, Mrs. Taylor will probably have to be content with a lot fewer readers than she deserves...
...Christmas baubles, in order to catch undergraduate trade before the December 19 rush decimates the cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...
...Coop believes in plenty of wreath and ribbon, and the store has been thoroughly festooned with them. For those who yearn for a big profit check next fall, and for those who want to do most of their shopping in one place, shuttling from department to department, the Coop has what it takes. And it has a fine collection of candles...