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...asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last week, before returning to the mine at Sudbury, he received a marathon winner's usual reward: a medal and a laurel wreath-presented to him by Boston's Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield...
Last week referring to the fact that the President had made some use of four out of five of the Thomas inflation methods (unused: authority to issue $3,000,000,000 of greenbacks), the Senator graciously bestowed a wreath on his own brow in saying: "I am in accord with everything President Roosevelt has done under the Thomas amendment...
...shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath on the Wilson tomb in the crypt of the Washington Cathedral...
...incident," last week hastened to Nuremberg with Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg, his Minister of Defense, and General Kurt von Hammerstein, Commander of the Reichswehr. He ordered a state funeral for Private Schumacher. Bareheaded, he led the parade. He delivered the funeral oration, laid a huge laurel wreath on the unlucky private's grave...
Last but not least of the four heroes is Pietro Aretino, the bastard guttersnipe whose effrontery and wit always kept him in high society and hot water, whose scurrilous lampoons lambasted everyone from the Pope down. One of his mildest japes: when unpopular Pope Adrian VI died, a wreath appeared on his doctor's door, inscribed: "To the Deliverer of his country, S. P. Q. R." Of the four, Aretino's end was happiest. After tremendous ups & downs he settled in Venice, waxed fat and urbane, survived a tragic love affair and went down wenching...