Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scout cheerfulness was put to the test this week by a downpour that lasted all Sunday night and half the next day, turning much of the camp area into quagmire. Undismayed, 5,000 selected Scouts marched to a memorial service in the Arlington National Cemetery theatre, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Governmental high spot of the jamboree came later this week with President Roosevelt's review. Instead of waiting while the 25,000 passed him, the President was to drive down Constitution Avenue, lined for two miles by cheering Boy Scouts...
...that was all signed, sealed and put into effect two years ago. Still he found enough to talk about with the President under the awning on the deck of the Potomac (except for a brief interval while he and Mme van Zeeland went ashore for a Mount Vernon wreath-laying) to talk all day. enough to keep him up to the small hours of the morning still talking to the President after a state dinner that night. And next morning when Secretary Hull returned from receiving a degree at Yale, lively M. van Zeeland trotted next door to the State...
...Wranowitz, Czechoslovakia, Anton Smula bet drinking companions that he dared enter a cemetery, filch a wreath from a new grave. Next morning Anton Smula was found dead in the cemetery, his coat caught in a picket fence...
...hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service. A rifle squad fired three volleys, and the Mendota steamed away through the spume leaving a lone wreath bobbing on the waves...
...seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened two miles from the finish, was a 24-year-old Quebec snowshoe champion named Walter Young, whose prizes were a laurel wreath, a silver cup, a medal...