Word: casketful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, a black van brought Evita's silver-trimmed cedar casket to the triangular Ministry of Labor building, where her body was laid in state in the gold-domed room she used as an office during her rise to power. While the casket was placed in a huge horseshoe of mauve and white orchids, Peronistas gathered outside until finally there were half a million of them; four were killed, 2,500 injured in the crush. At length the ministry's doors were opened, and the grieving mob poured in to peer through the casket's full...
...million, and his training school taught 11,000 Air Corps cadets how to fly. But at war's end, Ryan, like other planemakers, went into a dive. He slashed his work force from 8,500 to 850; to keep them busy, he started making a streamlined casket which he called the "Grecian Urn." It just about buried Ryan; in 1947 the company lost...
...breeches, took their turns standing honor guard in two-hour shifts, four at a time, one at each corner of the coffin. All next day and the day after, villagers filed silently past to pay their last respects to their King and squire as he lay in the simple casket. Three wreaths lay on the coffin: one from his widow, one from his younger daughter, one from Britain's Queen. The last, a white circle of lilies of the valley, camellias, carnations and hyacinths, was marked: "Darling Papa, from your loving and devoted daughter and son-in-law, Lilibet...
...want a job in South America making women's bathing suits? Or would you prefer to be a casket salesman for a Boston funeral parlor...
Family Business. In St. Louis, a loading zone permit for the Central Casket Co. was taken out by H. S. Coffin...