Word: bier
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assist in the funeral procession of Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. Members of the various classes will report to their respective marshals at that time. They will then be assigned to positions in the double line reaching from Appleton Chapel to the front of University Hall, through which the bier will pass on its way to Mt. Auburn Cemetery...
Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...
...privacy and simplicity of the last rites in honor of Theodore Roosevelt will not prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire...
...Hustrus Base (At a Young Wife's Bier...
...pappy Hicnichers will then pass around the bier three times all ready to depart for the long, long whorf where docks King Philip...