Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...
...elite Schutzstaffel (Black Shirts), whose chief job is to guard Adolf Hitler. Schutzstaffel Chief Heinrich Himmler made a speech: "And as we serve here, you will serve in Valhalla, for your Führer, for our movement and for Germany." The Führer laid on the grave a wreath inscribed, "To my old, loyal, beloved comrade." Himmler went on: "And now, dear comrade, I may announce to you an honor which the Führer has planned for you ... an honorable detachment of the Schutzstaffel will bear the name of Julius Schreck in the future...
...When Dion O'Banion's North Side gang hijacked too much of their beer in 1924; O'Banion was neatly drilled in his Chicago flower shop. Torrio attended the $50,000 funeral with Capone, looked at his dead foe, murmured disconsolately: "Poor Dion." But the floral wreath he sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen. When he finally screwed up enough courage to return to Chicago, he was riddled with bullets after a wild chase through Loop...
...Washington Evelyn Walker Robert, beauteous wife of the recently resigned Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., gave a large birthday party for her favorite horse, St. John the Baptist. St. John appeared at the party in a wreath of white carnations, eyed suspiciously a guest horse named Easter Sunday, several beribboned dogs...
...afternoon last week, the President received a fresh and odorous wreath of flowers to wrap around his neck. Three mornings earlier, the same flowers had been growing to their native roots in Hawaii. New air transportation over the Pacific had made it possible for Governor Joseph B. Poindexter to get unfaded Hawaiian leis to the White House in record time...