Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked down the marble steps of the high-vaulted National Assembly Chamber to a lectern decked with the flags of the Korean Republic, the U.S. and the U.N. Through gaping windows blew the strong, sickly sweet smell of corpses lying in shattered buildings outside. Now & then wisps of ash drifted in, and tinkling splinters of glass fell from the broken skylight above...
...looked promising although it was still very early in the year though it was still very early in the year to tell. The Rams will have already raced in two meets. They will not have the services of Bob Black, last year's star, but Lister, followed by Negris, Ash, and McClay, make up a strong first four. Holy Cross was defeated by Dartmouth last weekend, but the Crusaders have one ace in Ahern...
Since 1884, the Roman Catholic Church has formally disapproved cremation. Many Hebrews also frown on it, though Sir Philip Sassoon of the great Jewish banking family had a bomber squadron scatter his ashes. The Church of England sanctioned ash-scattering in 1944, if disposal were on consecrated ground. No Britain of top prominence has yet availed himself of the method. Although the last two Archbishops of Canterbury were cremated, as was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, none asked that his ashes be scattered. (But South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts had his ashes scattered on a hill at his farm...
...Roses. Some resistance to the practice comes from its cheapening by would-be wits, e.g., the golfer who specified: "Scatter me well over the tenth green at the club. It's been my nemesis so often I want to haunt the place." The Rev. Geoffrey Hilder called ash-scattering "pagan -even if it is utilitarian." Canon Cyril Sansbury denounced "sprinkling someone's remains in his own rose garden . . . in hope that dear George who died last year would grow up into new roses next year. I call this a kind of pantheism...
Other churchmen, led by Canon Henry Graham, commended this "sensible custom." The result was a typical British compromise: a vote to delete all reference to ash-scattering from the new church law. This would neither prohibit the custom nor give it full and absolute sanction...