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...Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research, she had discovered that Martha Washington was "a thorough housekeeper, looking after every detail of household affairs, with a bunch of keys always hanging by her side." To pay homage to such desirable virtues, the A. C. W. W. laid a wreath on the first First Lady's tomb, ignored her husband...
Imperial Garden Party, Bright & early next morning a round hundred admirers of Haile Selassie gathered in Whitehall to see him lay a wreath on the Cenotaph honoring Britain's War dead. With dogged British grit they waited all morning and all afternoon until finally dispersed by a thunderstorm. All through the day Haile Selas sie had been demanding that the Foreign Office accord him "official permission" to lay the wreath which meanwhile drooped and withered in his hallway. Captain An thony Eden's subordinates had kept insisting all day that His Majesty should merely apply to Scotland Yard...
...side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...
...elite Schutzstaffel (Black Shirts), whose chief job is to guard Adolf Hitler. Schutzstaffel Chief Heinrich Himmler made a speech: "And as we serve here, you will serve in Valhalla, for your Führer, for our movement and for Germany." The Führer laid on the grave a wreath inscribed, "To my old, loyal, beloved comrade." Himmler went on: "And now, dear comrade, I may announce to you an honor which the Führer has planned for you ... an honorable detachment of the Schutzstaffel will bear the name of Julius Schreck in the future...
...When Dion O'Banion's North Side gang hijacked too much of their beer in 1924; O'Banion was neatly drilled in his Chicago flower shop. Torrio attended the $50,000 funeral with Capone, looked at his dead foe, murmured disconsolately: "Poor Dion." But the floral wreath he sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen. When he finally screwed up enough courage to return to Chicago, he was riddled with bullets after a wild chase through Loop...