Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Howard Earle Coffin (Hudson-Essex consulting engineer) entertained President & Mrs. Coolidge on Sapeloe Island...
Died. Edmund Coffin, 84, Manhattan lawyer, father of Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; in Manhattan...
Howard Earle Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe...
Milan, neither seaport nor lake town, viewed with alarm increasing numbers of commercial hydroplanes which dotted the sky above the city, but never descended. Enterprising Milanese therefore chose to build an artificial lake where seaplanes may alight. Surrounding will be hangars, offices, hotels. But already, like a huge glittering coffin, the oblong water field waits for hydroplanes...
Grischa was shot, having meticulously joined his own coffin, lustily dug his own grave, manfully marched to his death...