Word: casket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women went to work last week as drivers and casket carriers in Los Angeles' fabulous Forest Lawn Memorial Park. (Said one: "I'd even dig graves if I had to, and it may come to that...
...funeral at Fort Snelling National Cemetery was impressive; the procession was four blocks long. Father Koch, who had fought in World War I, took home with him the flag that covered the casket...
Procrustes. In Birmingham, Ala., a widow sued an undertaking firm for $75,000, charging that the undertaker sawed both feet off her husband's body so that it would fit in a small casket...
...body in the steel casket had come 12,000 miles. On that unnamed island where he was killed, Private Weiner had been a favorite of the native chief. When he died, the natives held a tribal ceremony. They wove a tapestry of bark and sent it along for his parents...
...cemetery, six bareheaded youths—Private Weiner was only 18—carried the casket to a green hill among the sycamores. Nine solemn-faced Marines stood guard. When the body was lowered into the damp, fresh-dug grave, they fired three volleys into the leaden sky. Lots of people wept...