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...White House, which used to be his home as a young man. He came to attend the hanging of a portrait of his mother, the first of her to be hung there?the portrait of a dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been painted by a relative, Miss Kate Helm, from...
...occasion she and her stepdaughter, Alice Longworth (with whom she had been staying at Washington), called on Mrs. Coolidge (vide supra); on the other, she was called upon at Sagamore Hill by half a hundred admirers of the late President who had journeyed to lay an evergreen wreath on the grave of him who had been dead just seven years...
...Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid a white rose on the tomb. So was celebrated the hour of the Armistice seven years...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
...adopted, white with a golden sun (the astral body) spreading bright rays (psychic emanations) after the pattern of Japan's rising sun. There was the matter of mourning, and they passed a resolution denouncing rites by the "living" for the "dead" as "egotistical". There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation of medium-denunciators such as Harry Houdini, the skeptical handcuff king...