Word: coffining
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Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...
...very old man," said a solicitous Chinese general to Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. "Go home and lie down now." The general did not know what manner of septuagenarian he was talking to. Even when 70-year-old Dr. Coffin came home last month from his seven-month junket to the Far and Middle East, he did not lie down for long. He was too busy telling his fellows Christians about his trip...
There was never much doubt about what the Lord intended for Henry Sloane Coffin. As a youngster in New York City, he used a shawl-draped set of kitchen steps for a pulpit from which to deliver a high-pitched sermon to his lawyer-father and family. From such beginnings came the clear, hard-hitting style of preaching that eventually helped to multiply attendance at his fashionable Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board...
Jayvee: Stroke, Filley; seven, Cahnler; six, Felt; five, Ober; four, Hanson; three, Coffin; two, Stuart; bow, Cox; coxswain, King...
...Bogotá's beggars have yet to reach the imaginative heights of the Chilean beggar who carried a closed coffin on his shoulders through Santiago streets, asking alms to bury his dead child. Prying police found pesos in his pockets, no corpse in the coffin...