Word: wreaths
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...wreath sent from Stratford-on-Avon to Manhattan was placed at the foot of Shakespeare's statue in Central Park last week by a bleak, shivering little knot of people who were movietoned by two uncouth persons in great coonskin coats. Miss Eva LeGallienne, leading upliftress of Manhattan drama, laid the wreath. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, ill, was represented by a Mr. Strassburger...
...scores of people to the central eminence, whence they may enter into a spirit of the services held at the base of this monument. It is the subject of considerable surprise that the latter remains very meagerly decorated. Years ago, when a fence surrounded the spot, an occasional wreath was deposited within. One little old lady used to appear regularly and translate the Latin inscription for the benefit of the curious. She always left some token of her esteem, apparently a smaller one each year, until the last, occurring about five years ago, was a single rose. The children...
...North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
Fascist orders concerning the funeral of Quadrumvir Bianchi were that there was to be no music in the procession but the rolling of oilcloth-muffled drums, no flowers on the coffin or at the grave except two wreaths, one from the King, one from Il Duce. Wreath money, it was ordered, should be given to charities in Calabria, home of Quadrumvir Bianchi...
...actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...