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There was no rest for Waldemar either. Because in his anguish he imprecated God. he was condemned after death to ride through the skies nightly accompanied by his dead vassals. A peasant gibbered with fear the night he heard the coffin rattling overhead and the church door banging. The male choristers were the wild-riding skeletons, longing for release...
...places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory began to fail, his raven hair fell out. A trip to Egypt brought him a new crop of snowy hair, but only a short span of life. At Longfellow's funeral he looked long at his friend's face in the coffin. "I cannot remember his name," he said, "but he was man." Soon after, Good Man Emerson himself was dead...
...from Tsamatsui, buys everything necessary for her voyage home. On her last afternoon she strolls into the American Zone. The bullet that hits her is legalized by two bottles of liquor thrust into her stiffening hands. Home at last to France sails Cherie, tenderly laid by Tsamatsui in the coffin that he had kept polished and ready for himself...
...Magnolia and Middleton Place Gardens, lush and lovely in early Southern spring. Back in Charleston the First Lady boarded the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia to cruise Florida waters. Mrs. Hoover's journey was saddened when she learned that Mrs. Howard E. Coffin, her good friend whom she was planning to visit at Sapeloe Island, had died of heart disease...
Died- Mrs. Matilda Allen Coffin, 51, wife of Howard Earle Coffin, automotive engineer; of heart disease; in Sea Island Beach, Ga. Next day Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover was to have been her guest at Sapeloe Island, famed home of the Coffins, at which have vacationed Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh...