Word: caskets
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...workmen overhauling the town sewer solved part of the problem by inadvertently digging up Cesare. The disinterred Borgia bones were shrouded in a casket of silver and oak and placed in the town hall, while the ancient debate raged with new fury. Time passed; an old priest died, and a younger priest took' over; an old mayor died, and a younger mayor took his office; both agreed that it was time to end the ancient rift and to give Cesare a decent burial...
...last week as the villagers of Viana lined the streets, the casket bearing all that remained of Cesare Borgia was carried at last from the town hall and laid to rest once again in Santa Maria Church, with the full blessing of the see of Calahorra. In Viana it was felt that everyone would sleep better from...
...father, a casket polisher, worked hard and bought a home. Soon afterward, and without warning, a warehouse was built next door, thus devaluating the property. "Before a building is to be out up, people in the neighborhood must be informed by law, so they can appeal to the City Council. But they are not notified," he claims. Pone speaks of municipal collusion and bribery, but has yet no documented proof to back his charges...
...20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...
Quite alone in spirit, Martha Taft watched the honor guard carry out the casket. She had known very well the political Taft, a figure so often in contrast to the personal Taft: one argumentative, impatient with slow minds, the other amiable and tolerant; one stiff-seeming and standoffish, the other resonantly singing airs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, devoted to his four sons, playing with his grandchildren, who laughingly called him "the Gop." There had been contrast and sometimes conflict between the two tafts. She had not wanted him to campaign for the presidency...