Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funeral was one of great simplicity. His coffin was laid on a gun carriage, covered with the Tricolor and drawn first to the Chapelle des Invalides, then to the Cemetery of Montparnasse...
...Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
...intended to provide an opportunity for college men to spend a few days out of their summer vacation in close association with leaders in the religious world. This year, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who has lectured frequently at the University, J. Stitt Wilson, Henry S. Coffin, and other prominent divines will be in attendance at the Conference...
Among the many prominent national figures announced as speakers are included J. H. Scattergood '97, G. Sherwood Eddy, Harry E. Fosdick, John R. Mott, A. Ray Petty, J. Stitt Wilson, Charles R. Brown, Henry Sloane Coffin, Charles Taft, Ralph Harlow, William Cochran, and J. T. Stocking...
...that time the man had been dead some four or five years, and it seemed advisable to complete his coffin as soon as possible. The head undertaker ordered them to put "Sneferuw," or any old name, on the gold mat, and so it was done. It didn't matter much anyway...