Word: caskets
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Then he had a new idea. Why not bring over Izildinha's casket from Portugal? The townfolk of Monte Alto eagerly agreed to build a mausoleum. On the great day of her arrival in 1958, some 10,000 people lined the streets, and dozens of white-frocked little girls named Izildinha scattered rose petals ahead of the pallbearers. There were speeches and fireworks; Constantino was hoisted on the shoulders of townsmen and officially named "honorary citizen of Monte Alto...
...dignified but austere manner; a minimum of $1,500 gives eminent members of the bourgeoisie a church bedecked inside and out with black silk draperies embossed with the initials of the deceased, plus a chorus of 30 voices accompanied by harps, trumpets, violins and cellos, and an elaborately carved casket resting on an ornate catafalque built especially for the occasion...
Flowers were heaped high, cops stood around the casket, and hundreds of mourners trooped by. It was a fine funeral; and Jasper McLevy. who was fond of funerals and used to attend three or four a week, would have enjoyed it. But this was Jasper's own: the man who had served almost a quarter-century as the Socialist mayor of Bridgeport. Conn., was dead...
...legitimate theaters (17 of the 33 on Broadway, others in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati); of a heart attack; aboard a train bound for Florida. True to Shubert's instructions, his funeral took place on the stage of the Majestic Theater, with his widow seated by the casket, and some 1,200 mourners and business associates in the orchestra and balconies. No clergy officiated at the rites held, as the theater owner requested, "on a non-matinee...
...April 1945. Eleanor Roosevelt followed her husband's casket from a white cottage at Georgia's Warm Springs, down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, into the flower-scented East Room of the White House. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the new President, Harry Truman. Replied Mrs. Roosevelt, "No, but is there anything we can do for you?" When she returned home to Manhattan the following week, she dismissed waiting reporters with four words: "The story is over...