Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down thumped the lid of the coffin. The cortége set out for Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery where President Benjamin Harrison and three Vice Presidents rest in peace...
...wicker basket aboard a hearse the body of John Dillinger rode home last week from Chicago's morgue to Mooresville, Ind. There it was dressed in a light suit, fitted into a $165 coffin, and taken to his sister's bungalow outside Indianapolis. During the night 2,500 mourners filed past all that was left of the year's worst killer...
...Camel advertising tells the truth, then smoking a cigaret is not the equivalent of driving a nail into one's coffin. Nor is cigaret smoking the deadly sin which many a smoker still secretly feels...
...play, the most one-sided score on record. Lawson Little learned to play golf on links built on the site of a Chinese graveyard, when his army-officer father was stationed at Tientsin. A club rule said: "Ball may be lifted and dropped from open coffin without penalty." By the time Lawson Little entered Stanford, where he majors in economics and belongs to Chi Phi fraternity, his golf game was steadily in the 70. A good all-round athlete. Little likes golf well enough to train for it, ran three miles before breakfast every day for the Walker Cup matches...
...thousand miles away the New York Journal on successive days covered its front page with pictures of: 1) June Robles before the kidnapping; 2) her "coffin prison" in the desert; 3 ) June receiving "a warm kiss from her loving mother"; 4) June examining her school report card. The New York tabloid Mirror ran an interview, headed "TOT TELLS TORTURES." The interview went as follows...