Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago, when about to sail for Russia, I found in my cabin on the Olympic a letter from a friend asking that I place a wreath on the tomb of Paxton Hibben...
...such niche could be found by the Curator of the Kremlin when it came time for my wreath-laying and it was only after several days of search that, quite by accident, a woman came forward who remembered the funeral of Paxton Hibben and it was she who finally led me to his grave in the cemetery of the ancient Novo-Devichi Convent on the outskirts of Moscow. LIONEL TOMPKINS...
...Armistice morning he motored to Arlington Cemetery, to watch General Pershing lay the Presidential wreath of white chrysanthemums upon the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...King Edward, after laying his Armistice Day wreath on the Cenotaph in Whitehall last week, was greeted in the Royal Box at Albert Hall by veterans who serenaded him with the song Who's Your Lady Friend? His Majesty then drove directly to dine a deux with Mrs. Simpson at her home...
...Dictator Hitler and Count Ciano busied themselves drafting a further public announcement, Der Führer said good-by to the Foreign Minister and he was driven to Munich ("The Capital of the National Socialist Movement") for afternoon parades and evening torchlight demonstrations. Son-in-law Ciano laid a wreath on the steps of the Heroes' Temple in which are buried Storm Troopers killed in bloody German street brawls before the Nazis came to power. He laid another wreath on the monument marking the spot on which Government machine guns in 1923 opened fire on the "Beer Hall Putsch...