Word: wreathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondent William Watts Chaplin of I. N. S. reported seeing a distinguished British officer lay a wreath on a grave marked with his own name in one of the great World War I cemeteries near the front. The grave contained the officer's amputated leg, believed to be all that was left...
...body was lean and hungry-looking . . .strange pallor. . . . A young black beard, which mingled with the ritualistic ear-locks hanging down at either side." Less than two years later, when Yeshua stands before the Roman's superior, Pilate, the soldier notes: "On his graying-hair lay a wreath woven of thorns. . . . Little trickles of blood clotted the hair of his ear-locks, ran down his beard, and fell drop by drop onto his throat and naked body...
...German victory, though it had to be won at times over odds of 6-to-1, was not only sweet but cheap in casualties, said the Führer (see p. 44). And now "German soldiers have once more firmly established the right to wear the laurel wreath of which they were meanly deprived...
...Turks were still hesitating at latest reports but Russians considered it significant that Foreign Minister Saracoglu did something in Moscow which no foreign statesman has ever done before: he laid a wreath on the blood-red marble tomb of Nikolai Lenin in the Red Square...
...litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave, a wreath of brown orchids inscribed "The Italian Embassy" lay beside a wreath from President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form . . . consisting of: 1) an unstarched, tight-fitting cap or snugly fitting under...