Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a town was low on schoolteachers, Mrs. Henrichsen pitched in as a substitute. She not only comforted the dying, but once gave the undertaker a hand when a coffin had to be upended through a narrow doorway and a body hoisted through a window on a stretcher. She has driven a patient to the hospital, been mired in back-country roads, listened while unmarried mothers sobbed out their problems on her shoulder, and heard a girl say, "I'm glad we have a woman pastor-I couldn't have done that if you had been...
...film's producers add the cynical touch when--Patric Knowles a Britisher who plays a Britisher--shoots Angela in the back, spoiling her pretty coiffure. Knowles then sets out in a submarine with Stevens, who is again a free man. Knowles goes down with his coffin, while "Goody Goody," who should have gone down long ago, takes the deck again with the war practically in his well-starched pocket...
...several times with the light pan, produced one bang so resounding that the actors looked up and momentarily blew their lines. Even the electricians went haywire: as Viveca composed a farewell letter to her lover, the lights went on, then off, and finally a spotlight eerily picked out the coffin of her illegitimate son. Viveca gamely went on writing her letter...
...they walked, wearing the abstracted look which the important learn to adopt under the pressure of staring eyes-neither marching nor sauntering, in a kind of compromise stiff-legged strut, along the weary three-mile route. At Paddington they broke ranks at last, milling and chatting discreetly as the coffin was loaded on to the funeral train amid the skirling of pipes. As the train pulled out, a blind in one coach was raised and Britain's new Queen peered out. Her breath fogged the window and she brushed the mist away with an impatient gloved hand...
...great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." From a silver bowl, Elizabeth II took a handful of earth and dropped it on the coffin as it slowly sank to the vault below...