Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their loyalty by his coffin last week that the road was blocked for hours...
...Chicago's suburb Palos Park, Mrs. Florence Zeller gave her dead ring-tailed monkey, Monty, a $35 embalming, a white plush coffin and a fine funeral with four small children as pallbearers. To an assemblage of neighborhood children, two live monkeys, a bulldog and a cat, Mrs. Zeller's daughter-in-law read the 23rd Psalm. Absent was Mr. Zeller...
Through a cemetery in San Antonio, Tex. one day last week moved soldiers, priests, politicians, Governor James V. Allred, San Antonio's Catholic Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Mexico's exiled Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, and a hearse bearing a coffin containing a heap of old bones. Into a fresh grave went the bones, good Catholic dust, buried 200 years ago in a San Antonio mission cemetery, lately dug up in good preservation during excavation for a new post office...
...quarterback Ken Sandbach will get the call, since his play-calling and accuracy in passing have improved greatly during the season. Eddie Givens, from last year's Freshman team, possesses nearly equal field general ability and also kicks with a deadly eye for coffin corners, so that he is in line to taste real action...
Courad Aiken possess a tremendous ability to trace and realize the aberrations and fixations of the human mental mechanism which he displays impressively in King Coffin. The whole study is brilliantly worked out, convincingly set down. If is a document that should endure