Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonsectarian Lakeview Cemetery (where President James Garfield lies beneath a towering monument). Holding out for a 10?-an-hour pay raise, pickets prevented delivery of tombstones and a Memorial Day flagpole, chased off two gardeners working on a private plot. Stacked on two-by-fours in the Lakeview chapel, jammed into two crypts and the hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around to seek a favor. It asked the union to call off its pickets on Memorial Day, to permit services in honor of the war dead...
...saddle until he had mastered riding bareback, advising him "to give over the fruitless game of poetry," exacting his promise to renounce tobacco at the age of 23. After graduating from King's College at Aberdeen, George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future state of probation for heathens, and that he was tainted with German theology. Macdonald finally resigned to take up the poverty-stricken lecturing, preaching and writing at which he spent the rest...
...favored him with other miracles (in 1468 his prayers saved the town of Sarnen from a conflagration), with the gift of prophecy and with visions. High dignitaries of church & state sought him out in his ravine, where a cell and chapel were finally built to replace his hut of branches and leaves. In 1480 he is credited with saving Switzerland from civil war and possible partition...
Mayor Ben Stapleton of Denver, 77, who fell on his face swinging at a baseball last fortnight, but rose in one piece, tested his cohesion again. As he entered the University of Denver chapel to make a talk, he neglected to open a plate glass door, strode straight through it. Again the mayor remained quite whole...
...news in the furlong free-for-all for a field of 150 was the upset of CRIMSON-backed Mary Ross, also Wellesley '47. Reported a sure winner at post time, the petite but spirited blend speedster was last seen in the stretch just short of the treacherous Chapel turn, running easily and widening a big lead. Rumors of foul play were quickly squelched by the Wellesley publicity offices, but the Cambridge daily had its best men conducting a Waban-wide search last night for suspicious circumstances in the shadows of Tower Court...