Word: burials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Bernard Shaw, master of brilliant self-publicity, commented: "I am still alive; I am not ready for it." Facetious? Apparently; for nobody, so far as could be ascertained, had even suggested that he was a fit candidate, as a corpse, for burial in the "hallowed precincts of Westminster." But one dignitary of the church, eschewing publicity, made what was probably a subconscious but none the less effective rejoinder. Said he: "The Abbey is crammed with memorials of respectable nonentities, buried there by friends who could afford...
...late as 100 years ago a burial in Westminster Abbey could be obtained for as little...
...spite of this salutation, my letter is not directed to you. I address rather the editors of the Lampoon, and in thus doing hope for an exception to the CRIMSON rule against unsigned letters, as well as a temporary burial of the inter-publication hatchet. This is a matter of college honor, not to be thwarted I hope by petty feeling...
...imperial flag might not even be used at a military funeral and that wreaths might not be tied with black, white & red ribbons. Nor would monarchist ire be allayed by the sop that imperial uniforms might still be worn by veterans at anniversary reunions and at the private burial of comrades...
...Sweden, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf formally opened as an elec trically lighted museum a 1,200-year-old Viking burial mound at Lugnaro (west coast...