Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written that when they all fall out the World will come to an end. Furthermore by listening at the Sacred Stone one may still hear the subsiding waters of the Biblical Flood. All these things and beliefs, hallowed legend sanctifies...
...Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away's gang is robbing. This face is dear to an aging Irish landlady but not to Myrtle, the girl Mile-Away and Detective Chaney mutually admire...
...divine service by fiddling with the dials of their super-heterodynes, are affected only by voices, miss the presence of preachers. The massiveness of a Stephen Samuel Wise, the momentum of a Charles Reynolds Brown, the gestures of a Robert Norwood, the urbane asceticism of a Henry Sloane Coffin, are lost to the radiowner unless he goes to see what he has heard. Sometimes a voice allures and the radiowner goes to meeting when next a favorite preacher (previously known only as a voice) comes to town. And if the town is Chicago, the radiowner a Chicagoan, almost inevitably...
...president of the Association is a member of the firm of Coffin and Burr, dealers in investment securities. He is a director of several corporations as well...
...ordained minister, Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas was once a pupil at the Union Theological Seminary of which Dr. Coffin is now president...