Word: bierly
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Twelve thousand sightseers milled across the cemetery, trampling one another and toppling tombstones as they fought for a glimpse of the bier and the handsome pallbearers...
Till Death. Every Broeder is an Afrikaner of some standing in business, education or politics who has been watched secretly for years before being offered membership in the Bond. He is sworn in at a spine-chilling ceremony. In sepulchral gloom a light plays fitfully on a blood-spattered bier, on which lies a lifelike "corpse" wrapped in a black shroud. Into the "corpse" a dagger has been plunged to the hilt. Letters of blood spell the word Verraad (treachery). A predikant (pastor) intones: "He who betrays the Bond will be destroyed by the Bond. The Bond never forgets." Membership...
...center aisle of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, they lined up, three-abreast and three blocks long, hour after hour, to pass by him and pay their last respects-as they had done only three days before, five blocks south, at Al Smith's bier...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Some have been eliminated entirely while others have of necessity been confined to the summer or fall or spring semesters. But the green-bound pages, in more optimistic aspect, furnish concrete evidence that too many tears have been shed prematurely over the bier of Harvard's liberal tradition. Courses in the humanities still abound, with even unlooked-for additions...
After an invocation by Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School, the bier was carried in by eight members of Lowell House, followed by the pall bearers. Then came a dignified service lasting about 45 minutes, with the funeral cortege leaving for Mount Auburn Cemetery shortly before noon...