Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid a white rose on the tomb. So was celebrated the hour of the Armistice seven years...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
...adopted, white with a golden sun (the astral body) spreading bright rays (psychic emanations) after the pattern of Japan's rising sun. There was the matter of mourning, and they passed a resolution denouncing rites by the "living" for the "dead" as "egotistical". There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation of medium-denunciators such as Harry Houdini, the skeptical handcuff king...
...Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...
After lunch, the King drove up the Champs Élysées, lined with thousands of people who cheered lustily and shouted Vive Georges Cinq, and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which lies under the Arc de Triomphe...