Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, President Coolidge placed a wreath at the base of the statue of the Democrat, Andrew Jackson, close to the White House. No previous Republican President is known to have done...
...right way to handle this ceremony would be a pantomime with music, somewhat on the lines of Coq dOr. I ought to stand here going through the motions of making a speech, while lovely voices with lovely music sing an ode to Scotti and lovely women place a laurel wreath upon your 'brow. I throw this out as a suggestion for my successor at your 50-year jubilee...
Turning to his attorney, he kissed him on both checks and a moment later ejaculated: "Don't forget the little wreath of blue flowers-not red ones...
...Confessor, patron of the Order, to lay the gold on the altar there. The Dean delivered himself of a brief address and the choir sang the 68th Psalm to a harmonized Gregorian chant. The Order then marched in solemn procession around the Abbey and with the laying of a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the "most impressive ceremony the old Abbey had seen for centuries" was over...
Died. Ambrose Higgins, Jr., four, in Manhattan, knocked down by a truck. Representing the children of America, he laid a wreath on the bier of President Harding when the latter's body lay in state in the Capitol, Washington...