Word: casket
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...casket had just been lowered into a freshly dug grave at White Chapel Memorial Cemetery in suburban Detroit one day last week when a cemetery official scurried up to the graveside. "This burial must stop!" he cried...
...joyful. Titled gentlemen thought nothing of punching their wives in the face, and ladies were often disfigured for life with broken noses. Husbands were cruelly vindictive to errant wives. When the Dame de Fayel's husband discovered that she kept her dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy nightdress with a suitably placed hole through which...
...grim wisecracks, masking solitude and self-pity, kept pouring with the bourbon. The best thing about his funeral, said Carney, would be the hernia his best friend would get carrying the casket. He called the friend's wife, told her to caution her husband not to say "funeralwise" at the service. Falling to pieces, he asked the operator to try Dr. Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to see if he would make a house call. Opening a phial of sleeping pills, he named each one as he swallowed it: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel, Gretel, the Three Bears...
...Guard's Ball and you were supposed to be in costume. But I was wearing a brown striped suit with a black arm band. I was going to tell the lady that I had been at Versailles and now was dispatched to accompany President Wilson's casket. My date, I fancied, was German--I had met her in Paris--and couldn't get too unhappy about Wilson's death. But when we got to the dance, this lady puffed up her stomach and said 'How could you dare to come to the dance looking like that.' I stared...
...miles to family burial grounds at Franklin. Texas. Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across the valley, the casket was lowered into the grave. Williams left 42 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, 64 great-great-grandchildren and 59 great-great-great-grandchildren. He also left a cherished legend: last week Houston Mayor Lewis Cutrer proclaimed the day of his death as Walter Williams Civil War Memorial...