Word: coffin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wrote Ralph H. Graves, longtime New York Times Sunday editor, now a Doubleday, Doran executive at Garden City, where he was isolated: "A man lies unburied two days after the funeral hour because a coffin could not be got to his house. A young woman was dragged unconscious, half frozen, from a snow heap half a mile from her home. Electric wires were dead. . . . Telephone wires were useless. Taxicabs and private automobiles stayed in their garages or stuck in the snow. . . . For the better part of 24 hr. no help could be had, for love or money, in case...
...American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment was represented by a squad of nine men, marching abreast, the colonel at one end, a private at the other. King Albert's coffin, draped in the national flag, rode on a gun carriage. His trench helmet, wreathed in laurel, his military overcoat and his sword were laid on top. Behind the caisson was led his charger, Titanic, a huge bay with white feet. The King's boots were reversed in the stirrups...
...state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun of France. At the foot of the coffin Cardinal van Roey pronounced Absolution, and with muted horns the band of the First Grenadiers played the national anthem...
...committee since 1910, because he gave it $1,000,000 cash in 1928, George Blumenthal, retired senior partner of the firm of Lazard Frères, was last week elected seventh president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He succeeds the late Furniture Tycoon William Sloane Coffin (TIME...
Died. William Sloane Coffin, 54, Manhattan realty & furniture man (W. & J. Sloane), president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1931, brother of Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...