Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also denied that the students were planning to hold the Mass at midnight in the University chapel, "with someone rising from a coffin in the transept and deflorating a virgin on the altar as the conclusion of the Mass. There is no authority for this in any of the literature on the Mass, and it seems impractible. On the contrary, our ceremony would have been quite conservative and restrained...
Family Business. In St. Louis, a loading zone permit for the Central Casket Co. was taken out by H. S. Coffin...
...Whose Coffin Plan? Another McHale client is seeking Government payment for a product it didn't make. This is the Alliance (Ohio) Seamless Casket Co., which claims it developed a new kind of coffin for reburial of American servicemen killed overseas in World War II. It admits that it has no patent, had no contract with and produced no caskets for the Government. The case presented by McHale: the Government saved $12,575,000 by adopting Alliance specifications and giving them to other manufacturers...
...They cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought...
ABBOT R. "DICK" COFFIN Winthrop, Mass...