Word: coffining
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...coffin was being carried north on a slow train through crowds of mourners when Eleanor found out about Lucy Rutherfurd's presence at Warm Springs. In a rage, she later confronted Anna, who confessed that she had often helped her father meet with the woman. "He asked you?" cried Eleanor...
...jargon of the trade: there were no tricks, only "effects"; a disappearing object was a "vanish"; a suddenly appearing object was a "production"; a nimble-handed move was a "sleight." The masters of all these effects and sleights had vanished. Houdini, who could get out of a steel coffin, could not escape from his wooden one; Cardini, who commanded the attention of a jammed theater with nothing but a deck of cards and a pack of cigarettes; Thurston, Dunninger, Blackstone, Dante: all, all were gone or retired. People wanted facts, not illusions; it was the age of the scientist...
...Aires to the city's cathedral and then to the Congress. Atop Perón's casket, which was wrapped in Argentina's blue and white flag, were his general's cap and saber. Men and women lining the five-mile route burst into tears. Some tossed flowers at the coffin; others simply waved their handkerchiefs. There were plaintive cries of "Adiós, mi general" and "Chau, viejo," meaning, affectionately, "Goodbye...
Some 26 Quaker meetings have endorsed a letter deploring the "collapse of moral leadership in the Executive Branch" and urging members of Congress to cleanse the Government. T. Eugene Coffin, pastor of the East Whittier Friends Church, where Nixon is on the membership roll, has refused to say anything critical of the President, but he is said to be a distraught man. Father John McLaughlin, the Jesuit who is a White House adviser, is still trying to straighten things out with some members of his faith for his defense of the language and thoughts found on the tapes...
...Ulster's Catholic minority, Gaughan became an instant martyr. His emaciated body, enclosed in a coffin of Irish wood, with a black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army...