Word: wreathings
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...toga and a wreath on Gore Vidal and he could pass as a Roman at Nero's court. You know, the cheerfully disillusioned fellow in the corner who always said the empire would come to a bad end and-now that the fire has started-is absolutely the life of the party...
Going by the Book. He has written a book (pseudonymously and without episcopal imprimatur) called The Meanings of God, and it is his undoing. He explains the work as "a history of the God of the institutions, pulpits, political parties and wreath-laying generals. It is a history of the abuse of the notion of God and of its place in the motives of modern...
...means of communication between kitchen and customer, the menu has become marinated, garnished, overstuffed, embosomed with verbiage and necklaced with adjectives. It is now characterized, to borrow a phrase from the Forum of the Twelve Caesars in New York, by "a Rising Crown of Pate and Triumphal Laurel Wreath." In other words, it is meaningless...
...dare he? Impropriety indeed! The effrontery of that little banty rooster of a demagogue from Alabama, placing a wreath on Lincoln's Tomb [Sept. 20]. "Reverently"? With that habitual sneer? That is making a mockery of everything the great Lincoln stood for. Wallace shouldn't be allowed to even stand on such hallowed ground...
...scene possessed a grotesque impropriety. At the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., Alabama's George Corley Wallace, symbol of unregenerate Southern racism, reverently placed a wreath of red and white flowers. Said Wallace: "It's good to be in the land of Lincoln...