Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though his heroes usually take the centre of the stage, Author Roeder fills in his scene with many a background high-spot : the death of Pope Alexander VI, whose corrupt old Borgia body mortified with such appalling swiftness that it had to be hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder...
...torment of delirious notes in which he accused her of unfaithfulness. She kept faith to the dying poet long after he coughed out his last feeble breath, holding her oval white carnelian in his hand. She had understood his request that her last letter be laid in his coffin. He died. "All that grieves me now," she wrote pathetically to Fanny Keats, "is that I was not with him, and so near...
February 11 Pres. Henry S. Coffin, Union Theological Seminary...
March 25 Pres. Henry S. Coffin...
...addition to Dean Sperry, the members of the Board of Preachers for the present year are: Dr. Charles E. Park, of the First Church in Boston; Reverend Professor T. G. Soares, of the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, California; Right Reverend Henry K. Sherrill, Bishop of Massachusetts; President Henry S. Coffin, of Union Theological Seminary in New York; Reverend Charles R. Brown, Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School; and Reverend A. L. Kinsolving of Trinity Church, Boston...