Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state funeral, recessed for an hour to await distinguished guests. Many Representatives stayed in their seats, talked quietly as the galleries filled. At 11:30 a U. S. Navy band struck up a muted tune in the Speaker's lobby. The House rose as a flag-draped coffin was rolled in, placed among the flowers piled high against the rostrum, opened. For half an hour Representatives, clerks, pages shuffled by it. Then Speaker Bankhead's gavel rapped again and tall, grey Chaplain James Shera Montgomery, in flowing cutaway, began a prayer. When it was over the rear door...
...bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight, 50,000 Dubliners marched behind his coffin. After his hero's death, Edmund Leamy stayed manfully by his post, writing away for United Ireland, but his heart was no longer in it. When he could spare the time, he wrote fairy tales...
...nationwide organization with one office in each Federal Reserve district. Backer-directors of Young Management Corp. are Lawyer George Gordon Battle; Milton Whately Harrison, a trustee of Manhattan's huge Bowery Savings Bank; Giles G. Healey, scion of Boston's onetime carriage-building family; and Howard Earle Coffin, chairman of Southeastern Cottons, Inc. and reputedly the heaviest investor in Mr. Young's latest firm. Eventually there will be only two 42nd Street investment counsel firms with the name Young in them, since C. W. Young & Co., having bought back Mr. Young's stock, is independent...
While browsing through your issue of May ii, 1 ran across the Pulitzer Prize award announcements, learning to my more or less great dismay that the news had not yet seeped into New York, or at least the TIME offices, that Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was no longer a member of the Wells College faculty. 1 am prompted by utterly selfish motives to hasten to lay claim to Mr. Coffin for his alma mater, Bowdoin College...
Union's faculty, all but one of whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps...