Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With heart and brains removed, the body of Josef Pilsudski, Dictator of Poland, lay in an oak coffin before the high altar of St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw last week. Outside a drenching cold rain was falling, and so great was the crowd of mourners in the cathedral square that several had their arms broken, dozens were trampled on, scores fainted...
...honorary pallbearers but carrying the heavy coffin on their own shoulders, members of the Cabinet of Premier Walery Slawek moved slowly down the aisle. Outside the sun was just breaking through the rain clouds. Along silent streets lined with troops and weeping crowds, the body passed. At one spot there was a near panic. A ladder left by some workman on a tile roof clattered to the ground. People screamed, broke windows, milled about, until square-capped officers with drawn sabres had cleared a path...
...Mokotow airport on the outskirts of the city there is a high turf bank from which twice every year Marshal Pilsudski used to review his troops. His coffin was brought to that bank. Veterans of the old Pilsudski legions kept back the crowds. Four squadrons of army planes flying in formation droned back & forth...
...crawled from Warsaw 200 miles to Cracow. It consisted of a locomotive, four coaches with curtained windows and in the centre an ordinary flat car striped black & blue, the colors of the Polish Military Cross. Floodlights from either end were focussed on the gun carriage, the red-&-white draped coffin, the sword, baton and cap of the Marshal. At every little station the train stopped for a few moments. All along the line candles burned in every farmhouse window and bonfires flickered along the distant hills. At every crossing stood groups of peasants holding guttering torches of rag-wrapped branches...
...cathedral of Wawel Castle. Here lie buried Poland's ancient kings and heroes: John Sobieski who saved Vienna and Europe from the Turks in 1683; Kosciuszko, Champion of Liberty; Prince Poniatowski. President Moscicki pronounced the last eulogy and the body of Marshal Pilsudski, in a silver coffin, was laid to rest beside them. With much simpler ceremonies Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University of Warsaw, now to be known...