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Word: coffined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Howard Earle Coffin, 63, industrialist (Southeastern Cottons, Inc., Sea Island Co., Hudson Motor Car Co., National Air Transport, Inc.), host to Presidents Coolidge and Hoover at his Georgia coast estate; to Gladys Baker, 39, Florida newspaper woman; her third husband; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...with a picture of sanctified George V riding in plus fours and gaiters on his favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: British Academy | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Fort Bragg. Calif., nobody believed that forehanded Abe Triplett was going to kill himself when he picked a spot under a big tree, permitted himself to be photographed digging his grave (see cut ). Nobody believed it when he went home, built himself a coffin. Two days later Fort Bragg found it was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...TRISTRAM COFFIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...party last New Year's Eve, emotional Helen Wills Love, 31, went to the party anyway, shot Mr. Love dead. Mrs. Love's arrest, indictment and trial turned out to be the midwinter sensation of Southern California. She was amply photographed kissing her late husband in his coffin, and during the trial one of the women jurors was removed for habitually getting drunk on liquor which she hid in the women's toilet. Fortnight ago, the other jurors found Helen Wills Love guilty of murder in the second degree. Cried the prisoner: "That's not fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Profound Sulks | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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