Word: bierring
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Died. Ambrose Higgins, Jr., four, in Manhattan, knocked down by a truck. Representing the children of America, he laid a wreath on the bier of President Harding when the latter's body lay in state in the Capitol, Washington...
Thousands streamed by his bier covered with flowers; a distinguished minister conducted the funeral services, and a notable cortege followed his casket to the cemetery. One wreath, proclaimed as costing $250, bore a written tribute to the desperado's alleged bravery displayed while engaged in banditry, and railed at the betrayal of his friendship by his executioner...
...funeral of Augustine MacDonnell, a faithful servitor of the College who had been janitor of the buildings in the Yard for over thirty years. By common subscription among the occupants of Hollis, Holworthy, and Stoughton Hollis a fund was raised for a wreath which was laid upon the bier by a representative from each of the three buildings...
...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...