Word: burials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna, all was peaceful down the broad, leafy boulevards. But at the Central Cemetery, the Super-Reporter found a scene worthy of his typewriter. He mentally jotted down a neat phrase?"a mass burial for men and women who died in a mass movement"?and squared off to gather the scene's color and emotion...
...Have you ever noticed in the North End of Boston, for example," he went on, "a large funeral of some fifteen or twenty automobiles and huge loads of flowers, accompanying the burial of some obscure laborer? The collegia, in the time of the Empire, were associations of a very similar nature to those which provide the North End funerals. The Aryan faith required that a man have a decent burial, and for those who could not provide one, the funeral associations existed. While the Christians only inhumed the bodies of the deceased, the pagans used cremation as well...
...president of the Museum, will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important archaeological finds yet made in Egypt. The tomb dates from about the year 3000 B. C., and is situated at a depth of nearly 100 feet within the precincts of the Great Pyramid. The royal burial chamber was filled with furniture, vessels of gold, pottery, and stone. An alabaster sarcophagus, in perfect state of preservation, undoubtedly contains the body of the queen...
...Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds of known Norse origin in Scandinavia and Scotland. (Mr. Brewer did not suggest that the Moundbuilders had not followed their burial customs for centuries before the Norse came; he simply suggested that Norsemen in America might have followed their own burial customs also...
...loves politics. Where his youth aimed, his manhood achieved. Last week he carried his new sphere-moviedom-to his old political realm, talked to President Coolidge about films of Woodrow Wilson, General Pershing's homecoming, the burial of the Unknown Soldier-all history. And as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed pleased...