Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France; all of which are abominable trash and hardly worth the paper on which they are printed. . . ." But, by way of contrast, and apparently commended, the vogue for Literary Annuals and Gift Books- the Casket of Love, Deivdrops Gathered and Presented in Their Brightness and Purity, the Cypress Wreath, a Book of Consolation for Those Who Mourn...
...great preceptor, the University of Oregon, now presided over by one of your own disciples, would be enrolled among those who happily gather today to salute you. And the legend we would most reverently and cordially inscribe within the encircling wreath would be the vow that Rome once gave to her Augustus or her Constantine Vota...
Some weeks ago the Metropolitan Opera Company entertained a composer of an opera in its repertory. Italo Montemezzi, "honored guest" at a gala performance of his own L'Amore dei Tre Re, was crowned on the stage with a wreath. Now a similar event has taken place. Max Schillings, upon visiting America, was a guest at a performance of his own Mona Lisa, which was given last year for the first time in American (TIME, May 19). Schillings was not crowned with a wreath. He does not, indeed, deserve a wreath; his opera is not half as good...
...earth." And now, like Oden's ravens he brings back tidings, not from all corners of the globe perhaps, but far more remarkable for a Cambridge foaled beast, from twelve states outside of New England! And the genius, his flowing robes girl up about his loins, his wreath becomingly arranged, his lyre attuned to the typewriter--raises the ante. The prize for the best word to describe a "dry" leaps from ten to twenty-five dollars...
MOSCOW ART THEATRE?The persevering Russians adding new plays to their American repertory -and new leaves to their wreath of laurel...