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Word: wreathes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Personal Approach | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Martyrdom Denied | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Wreath of Roses, with Conrad Nagel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Three hundred-odd Wellesley seniors will sprint for a husband Monday morning, in the Waban wenches' annual hoop race. The winner of the race--down Wellesley's Severance Hill--traditionally picks up a wreath and the class's first husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Girls Roll Hoops for Hubbies | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

...single grave rest the remains of a onetime 19th Century German beauty, Jenny von Westphalen, her grandson Harry Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet, lives far away in a Paris suburb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Weeds | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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