Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, relatives gathered from Connecticut and Maryland to mourn the death of Mrs. Maria Maggio, 94. The coffin arrived, was banked . with flowers, finally opened. "Hey!" shouted Grandson Peter Lamarco. "that's not Grandma." Hospital apologized, admitted that Mrs. Maggio was still alive, that the corpse was that of Mrs. Maria Maglio...
...Statue of Liberty were laid in a coffin and floated in New York Harbor, it would be lighter and no simpler to maneuver than a timber-lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting, Ind., at the foot of Lake Michigan. There it will be stood on one end, and, towering Soft., will serve as a low pressure evaporator tower for distilling crude oil for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana ("Stanolind"). Construction and delivery of the tank was accompanied by a great shattering of records...
Watercolor: Publicity Writer Patricia Coffin, 25, whose first drawing, age eight, was of a rhinoceros...
...blustering old Dictator two years ago placed his benediction on bush-browed Edward Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...