Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least that may be expected is a magnificent battle, with Crimson streaks flashing across the finishing lines to break more records, and probably Olympic material becoming full-fledged candidates. To hard-working Coach Ulen and his equally hard-working team a laurel wreath for a successful season, and the best of luck on today's venture...
This expression of surprise last week was the more remarkable because in 1933 the Ochs memorandum was shown to Lord Lee, received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...
...into goodness by wooden heroes and lay figures, seems to be passing away. But, even worse, the other extreme has been reached. Everything good is questionable; and the bad is not bad enough. We live in an age of debunkment. In athletics, a golden crown has replaced the laurel wreath; the stage is obscene; art is acrobatic; music is barbaric; institutions are enslaving; life is a long slippery rope with a noose...
Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
...whole family, she was under suspicion throughout the War. Afterward she turned over the admission proceeds of her Pasadena, Calif, gardens to disabled California veterans. Last week, a long cry from the spirit of 1917-18, Pasadena Legionaries made a pilgrimage to her St. Louis mausoleum, placed a wreath on Lilly Busch's tomb...