Word: casket
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...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerged as a delightful fop. Robert Evans made the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results; the only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...
...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerges as a delightful fop. Robert Evans makes the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results. The only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...
...Medal of Honor winners and the honor guards from the four services all snapped smartly to attention as the President, acting "on behalf of a grateful people," placed a Medal of Honor upon each flag-covered casket. In this sparse ritual honoring two men whose particular names are "known but to God,'' a democracy paid tribute to the courage of the assorted millions who fought for its freedoms. And in respect for all those who died in that service, the Unknowns were given burial services by three chaplains, in Latin by the Roman Catholic, English by the Protestant...
...little girl who lived next door [and] vowed that some day when he conquered the world, he would return and marry her . . . When he was well established, he returned to Whitechapel to claim his little bride. Just as he started to climb to her little room, a tiny white casket was carried down the stairs. . . . She had died of starvation while waiting for him." Charlie "would cry while telling this story...
What the excavators found was a looted grave, so despoiled (probably by the Saracens in 846) that much of it was a featureless hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures...