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...uproar. Telegrams and cables began to pour in. Public demonstrations took place. "In Italy . . . a 24-hour strike was called, involving everyone connected with the painting industry . . . a colossal effigy . . . was constructed of soap and tallow, paraded through the streets of Florence, and ceremoniously burnt, [after which] a wreath was solemnly laid on the altar of St. John...
...concussion. At a beer counter, another casualty stood with his head bandaged and his eye black-the victim, like half a dozen others, of a falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points and one incredible 340-yd. clout, was acclaimed the Schläger Koenig (batting king...
...pentathlon (five events), first introduced in 708 B.C., the best jumpers qualified for the spear throwing; the four best spear men qualified for the sprint; the three best sprinters threw the discus; the two finalists wrestled for the prize: a wreath of olive leaves. The Ancient Games, held every four years (an Olympiad) for nearly twelve centuries, first started near Athens...
...first visit ever paid to Turkey by Greek monarchs. A gleaming white presidential train took the visitors off to Ankara for a station-side reception by President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. High point of the visit would come when the Greek monarchs placed a wreath on the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the great Turkish strongman who had whipped their armies...
...first few toddling steps, painstakingly worked up to a complete circuit of the living room. After several months, when he had managed 15 times around the room, Valerie would ask him jokingly, "How many laps today?" It was better to laugh about it, they decided, than hang out a wreath...