Word: casket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best friend is Mortician Mack McMack whom he admires for having installed really fine mortuary apartments which paid for themselves in less than 17 months. The mortuary equipment includes "a pile of nice linen handkerchiefs for the bereaved, all absolutely free . . . and a casket that slides out of the back room into the chapel-drawing room on a little electric trolley, as if by magic . . . thus giving a feeling of awe and mystery...
...community of which his city is the centre, had no idea to whom it would be given. Most of them were distinguished Philadelphians, including the giver of the prize, Edward W. Bok, onetime editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check for $10,000. Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except...
...great sledge. The sledge was covered with a pall of silver; it had silver handles. The silver gleamed dully. Above, on the alabaster casket shone much gold- a dado, four seals and hasps. Explorer Carter's men inched up the lid, moved it most carefully to the floor. The box was open for the first time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian...
Within the casket were what Howard Carter expected to find-four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...
...Luray, Va., just before Christmas, a tree dropped a large branch on the head of one Fannie Broyles. Fannie Broyles fell down and lay very still. Her relatives found her, took her home, enclosed her body in a casket, took the casket to church, stood near it, sang funeral hymns. Before these had been finished, Fannie Broyles opened her eyes for one brief second. Soon she opened them again, waggled her hand and got out of her coffin. Afraid of being buried while alive, she had completely recovered from the blow that had stunned...