Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Boston nowadays, the Harvard student descends into the bowels of the earth, drops a dime into a box, and enters a coffin-like case of steel. He is whirled over the Charles to Park Street Under in ten minutes, almost before he realizes it, to be spat up on the surface again via an escalator...
Park--"Honeymooning in High"--8:15 o'clock--Fun over a coffin...
...Empress, the Imperial Princes, the Ministers of State and other high dignitaries then ascended the altar, laid evergreen beside the body, sprinkled incense and turned away. With this simple ceremony the funeral itself was over. Then came relays of 120 pallbearers, great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since...
...accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin...
Died. Anson Wood Burchard, 62, vice chairman of the General Electric board of directors, at the home of Mortimer L. Schiff, Manhattan; of acute indigestion. He helped the late Charles Albert Coffin plan G. E.'s policies...