Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boards. By winning the second heat in 1934 Greyhound became the first trotter to take the Hambletonian Stake in straight heats since Walter Dear in 1929. A lean, grey, three-year-old gelding, singularly unimpressive when not in fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker of St. Charles...
Princess Ingrid wore no jewels. On her head was a small wreath of myrtle. She wore the lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much too sore to stand, with lungs much too exhausted to speak. Runner Kelley vomited again, allowed his head to be crowned with the first-prize laurel wreath...
...Jews. Few are the important businessmen who can quit a Congressional investigation without having their hair singed. Some have gone away without their scalps. Therefore it was an event when a wealthy businessman last week met Senators and departed not only with all his hair but with a Congressional wreath upon...
After recognizing the heroism of German soldiers, and setting up a tablet in their honor, Harvard has been insulted, and its chapel defiled, by a wreath placed under said tablet bearing the official mark and colors of the German people. Not only that, but the German representative in Boston did the dastardly deed, under the guise of recognizing Harvard's breadth of mind in honoring the memories of America's former enemies...