Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt was plagued with foreign wars and domestic turmoil; Nile transportation had broken down, and the supply of granite blocks from the upriver country had ceased. Unjebanenjebet combed the showrooms of the local coffin makers, but found no coffin or unhewn block big enough for him. He was 6½ ft. tall...
...pital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...
...Greyhound busses ran out of Birmingham, no meat was delivered in Albany, no caskets made at the Tennessee Coffin & Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...
James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
Waste Not, Want Not. In Rio Segundo, Argentina, Baker Felipe Gauna exhumed his wife, cremated her, converted her coffin into a bread-kneading trough...