Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the air of a preacher or an actor. He is the best hated man in Washington. He once ruled that a traveling Government official could not tip a redcap more than 25? for two bags. He refused to honor a $15 Navy Department expense account for an official wreath at a State funeral. He once argued for months with a railroad over a 35? claim, and won. He refused to give a traveling official $1.50 for supper because he said the man could have eaten at home before he caught the train and that anyhow Congress had not appropriated...
...glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath at the ornate bronze equestrian statue to Prince Eugene of Savoy, who helped defend Vienna...
...Genji. Written some time ago (1001-15) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel of the East and one which, even if compared with the fiction of Europe, takes its place as one of the dozen masterpieces of the world." With...
Other volumes (in order) : The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat (TIME...
...massed in the execution field by the great Schlageter cross last week, the greatest single crowd Western Germany has ever seen, but the ceremony was mild as ginger beer. By advice of counsel Adolf Hitler and former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm stayed away. Wilhelm of Doom sent a wreath, but the only Hohenzollern representative was fat Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") in his Nazi uniform. Chief oration came from bull-necked Wilhelm Hermann Goring who rattled no sabres, contented himself with saying...