Word: burials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guardedly whispered was a bit of palace gossip that the youngest of the Royal Infantas, Princess Maria Christina-17 and high strung-almost fainted when her father, the King, invoked an old Spanish custom and bade her assist him to prepare for burial the corpse of Queen Maria Christina, after whom the Princess was named...
Perchance the CRIMSON, in the kindness of its heart and prescience of its editors, might assist the Junior Prom to a decent and timely burial. And, if it is not too late for the funeral ceremonies to be held this year, a modified referendum might discover a sufficient number of eager* mourners in the class of 1930 to warrant the tolling of the Bursar's bell...
...drew the ship to land. But also Death drew nearer. The race was ended when the Ile de France was still a day distant from Manhattan. As the liner docked, young Mrs. Wells said that she would take the malaria wasted body of her husband home to Minneapolis for burial...
...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...
...honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived...