Word: wreaths
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...Ebert funeral appeared a large wreath of lilacs, bearing a ribbon with a crown and the initial "W." The Acht Uhr Abendblatt was overjoyed. "From ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm," the newspaper reported. The Deutsches Tageblatt was certain that it was the ex-Kaiser who had, with characteristic thought, sent the wreath...
...Presidential Palace in Wilhelmstrasse, an official said both newspapers were misinformed. The wreath in question was from her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands...
...love-scenes; Signer Lauri-Volpi (Gallurese) turned himself into a human cornet; Conductor Tullio Serafin imposed upon the wavering score his own electrifying power. At the close of each act, Montemezzi appeared before the curtain, bowed, smiled. On one of these occasions, a lackey delivered to him a floral wreath...
Trig, bobbed, black-velveted, she waved the baton, now in her right hand, now in her left, worked furiously at the climaxes; sometimes she shook her fist at the trombones. After every number, the house burst into bravos. Early in the evening a huge wreath, surmounted by the British and American flags, was placed on the stage. Her admirers came to praise. Repeatedly she tried to make the orchestra rise and bow with her, but that organization of astute and courteous musicians remained obstinately seated. They knew that Miss Leginska believed herself to be experiencing the only sensible gratification which...
Scratch a Californian and you find a tennis player. Last week more tennis laurels went West. The ubiquitous, indefatigable, highly skillful brothers Kinsey-Robert and Howard -convinced all comers at the Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...