Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends had persuaded the police and other authorities that he was still alive. "It is Roger Lamy, in the flesh and standing before me," Roger's old boss had thundered tellingly to the captain of gendarmes. "He can no longer be considered to be in that coffin of yours." The captain agreed, but it was much too late to call off the funeral. In honor of the great day, one of the cafés gave Roger a free breakfast. Roger set off for the cemetery. As one old friend after another recognized him, there were many touching embraces...
...arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting and, after killing it, have shut it up in a cubist coffin. Life today hardly allows one to be a painter. Tomorrow it will be even less so. What is painting today? An anachronism...
...funeral procession rolled through the undulating corn country from Winnebago to Sioux City. At the grave an American Legion firing squad fired the traditional three volleys of the military burial service. The service ended when Evelyn Rice was given the flag that had draped her husband's coffin...
...after all the mourners had gone, a cemetery official asked a strange question: "Was that boy an Indian?" While the coffin still rested above the grave, he explained that the cemetery articles of incorporation restrict it to "members of the Caucasian race." The body was taken back to the mortuary...
...Cord (U.S.): "A solemn expression of streamlining" with "a coffin-shaped hood . . .[suggesting] the driving power of a fast fighter plane...