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Springfield. Britain's War Premier visited the shrine of America's Civil War President. Upon the sarcophagus he laid a wreath bearing an inscription: "A humble and reverent homage to the memory of one of the world's greatest...
...Winnipeg Mr. George announced his intention of stopping off at Marion, O., to pay his respects to Mrs. Harding and to lay a wreath on the grave of the late President...
...family is to America, so are the Wethereds to England, only more so. Over here, Miss Edith and Master Dexter wear respectively the national women's and the intercollegiate laurels. Over there, Miss Joyce's brother, Master Roger, is adorned by the men's amateur title wreath...
...lofty way back from a two-day cruise over the Sahara, the Dixmude met a hurricane above Sardinia?so circled back to the African coast. Next day Sardinia and Corsica passed beneath her. At seven the following morning she hovered over Paris, then dropped a wreath on the monument at Moulins to the victims of the dirigible Republique's crash some years ago, swung back to the Riviera and landed in front of her hangar near Marseilles at the dawn of her fifth day of flight...
Dostoievski, George Eliot, Browning, Cervantes, Rabelais, Whitman, James Joyce, James Barrie, Amy Lowell, Kipling, Conrad, Dickens, Scott, Wordsworth, Wells - all have their staunch supporters for the poison ivy wreath. Some of the critics give reasons. Comments Thomas Beer upon St. Paul, his second nominee : " They left him alone with the Christian church and he made it what it is today." Upon Blaise Pascal : " I am told by one young enough to be an authority that ' Pascal's sad, burning thought descends to the inmost seat of being.' Let it work while I sleep." Ernest Boyd describes...