Word: wreathed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bending down, M. Clemenceau placed a wreath upon the coffin. A moment later, he walked in silence to his motor car and was driven away...
...present age, Ananias may enjoy a religious resurrection more premature than that premised nineteen centuries ago. For the oracular omniscience from Brooklyn has placed a syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
...White House, which used to be his home as a young man. He came to attend the hanging of a portrait of his mother, the first of her to be hung there?the portrait of a dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been painted by a relative, Miss Kate Helm, from...
...ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders of her worshipers, her purple face peering, like a ribald Nero's from a wreath of flowers...
...occasion she and her stepdaughter, Alice Longworth (with whom she had been staying at Washington), called on Mrs. Coolidge (vide supra); on the other, she was called upon at Sagamore Hill by half a hundred admirers of the late President who had journeyed to lay an evergreen wreath on the grave of him who had been dead just seven years...