Word: bier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago (TIME, July 12) the persistent salvagers completed their trying task, raising the S-51 132 feet from off her ocean bier by means of pontoons. They towed her into drydock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...coast of Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean...
...years (since 1920) M. Clemenceau pronounced no public utterance. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Frenchmen dubbed him "The Father of Victory," and with that supreme laurel wreathing his brow he has felt it perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight...
Died. Barbara La Marr (Reatha Watson), 29, famed cinema actress, daughter of William W. Watson, Portland, Oregon, newspaperman; at Altadena, Calif., of a lingering illness. "More than 120,000 persons" passed her bier as she lay in state at Los Angeles. A crowd of 10,000 broke up the funeral when it was finally held, milled about furiously while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted...
...crowd drowned him out with laughter. On the floor below he swore in some 30 members of his Administration and shook hands, grinning, for several hours. Finally he drove away to stop at an undertaker's to pay his respects at the bier of a friend's mother before going to his New Year's dinner...