Word: wreaths
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...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...
President Doumergue drove from the Palais d'Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe at the top of the Champs Elysées. Here, in the presence of the Ministers, he deposited a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Poilu, instead of attending the usual military revue...
...bugle-blast rang out at the Marathon Gate. Into the Stadium loped Stenroos, a little Finnish woodcarver, still perky after 26 miles over hill and dale. He was crowned King of the Games with a laurel wreath, after an Italian, an American, another Finn, a Briton, a Chilean crawled...
...gave the world's record of 21 1/5 seconds a sick headache. In the finals this modern Mercury sped down the track in 21 seconds, tying his first effort on the previous day. By all odds, the gods had marked him down for an Olympic wreath...
Then followed three days of hectic State formalities. The Italian King and Queen attended a State banquet, laid the inevitable wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, paid homage at the Cenotaph, were present at a State Ball given in their honor, visited the British Empire Exhibition, the Zoo, attended a great luncheon in the Guild Hall. At the Italian Embassy, the Italian Sovereign and his Consort gave a dinner to which the British King and Queen, members of the Royal Family, many Government and distinguished people were invited. They then departed amid volleys of British "Hip, Hip, Hurrahs...