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...stage, the scene: "... a shabby backdrop of bright stars: one of the small interstices of time." Then the itemized catalogs begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless him"); other boys ("hey bricktop! hey carrots...
...midnight fortnight ago a sedan coasted up to the cemetery of rustic Fairmount, N. J. A woman and two men got out. The men were carrying something that looked like a small coffin. Close to the mound of a recent grave, the men dug a hole in which they placed their burden. The woman dropped a handful of earth on the new burial, wept as the men filled the hole. The three departed in the sedan...
...Brooklyn police found a moldy, ornate coffin in a vacant lot. Inside the coffin was a card. On the card: "Spindel Zeus, No. 202, expired...
...pastor of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, was elected by the Congregationalists to succeed Rev. Dr. Fred B. Smith. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, syndicated advice-giver, was nominated but had his name withdrawn. Christian President, too ill to attend the Convention, is Dr. Frank George Coffin of Columbus, Ohio. Observers believed he would be reelected. After 1935 the new Church will have but one moderator...
...politely. But after she was dead he made out a false certificate of the cause of death, so that her husband would never know. Then he left his job, went back to Europe. On the same boat traveled the lady's husband, with her body in a lead coffin. The doctor feared that her husband, his suspicions aroused, might order an autopsy. So he took big steps to prevent...