Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, like any other citizen. Sitting in the midst of the fitful, strained conversation, he had plenty of time to reflect on the newest scandal-his alleged hand-in-glove scheming with Racketeer Frank Costello (see p. 22)-which had driven the final nail in Tammany's coffin...
Later scholarly, urbane Presbyterian Moderator Henry Sloane Coffin addressed the Episcopal Convention. Said he dryly: "Our Church is committed to the principle of visible Church unity and never has sought to be merely a sect of the Holy Catholic Church...
...Among them: Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and President of the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; Dr. Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, Moderator of the Congregational Christian Churches; Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Secretary of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops; Roman Catholic Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Robet E. Lucey of San Antonio; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, President of the Synagogue Council of America...
Recordings of recitations by American and British poets have been exchanged by the British Broadcasting Company and the University's Poetry Room collection of records. Poets reading their own works include Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Davies, Stephens and Spender for the British, and Coffin, Jeffers, McCord, Spencer, Fletcher, Hillyer and Gogarty...
...Manned the gun turrets of two Martin Marauders, called the "Thunder," and the "Coughin' Coffin...