Word: wreaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pound. The rest of Washington apparently agreed. While the President closeted himself in the White House for a conference with State Department officials on the Far East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work...
...carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should have to see America for the first time...
...mournful harmonica rendition of Hearts and Flowers, a group of traders marched across the paper-strewn floor of the New York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week. At Post No. 9 they stopped, laid down a wreath to the memory of an old friend...
...week's end, the Apristas appeared to have scored heavily. Seoane had lodged a complaint of criminal larceny against Elguera, who was expected to be recalled to Peru. And, as partial satisfaction, the mayor's office had authorized the Apristas to lay another wreath at the O'Higgins statue on Aug. 20, the Liberator's birthday...
...made time for the interview in one of his busiest weeks. It was Argentina's annual army week, the 133rd anniversary of independence from Spain. There was a three-hour-long parade, followed by wreath-laying ceremonies, honorary reviews and state receptions. The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, both got decorations...