Word: burials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They could, however, have no fear of unholy burial. So long as a body lies in a Catholic cemetery, be it buried in any fashion, it lies in consecrated ground...
...Paris, Andre Rimbaud, hunted criminal, paid for bogus newspaper notices of his death and burial. Police suspected, consulted records, ferreted, arrested...
...week of pneumonia. During his long medical career he had performed 1,500 post mortems including those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after my death, and if practicable, before any embalming is done, that an autopsy be made upon my body by some competent person." The competent person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well...
...Creative Art, "I do not know how to do it unless I speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female...
...publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white flowers-Cherokee roses, the night-blooming cereus, moon flowers...