Word: coffining
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Funerals became strangely frequent. Always first in processions was Pierre Guichard, dignified beadle of the Cérilly church. Next, the cure, sprinkling holy water with an energy suggesting joyous abandon. Behind him came the coffin bearers, their spirits lighter than the heavy box they bore. Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness...
...Navy found the other half of its two-man crew still tightly wedged in the ship's bowels. Unable to scoop it out conveniently, the Navy sliced a 15-foot after-section from the core of the sub and, with full Naval honors, laid the makeshift coffin to rest in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard...
Early one morning Chile's National Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...
Afterwards, to the dirging of military bands, a great procession followed the coffin on its slow journey to Santiago Cemetery. A crowd of 400,000 filled the plazas and windows along the way, pressed against the ropes in hushed respect to the President who had given Chileans cheaper clothes and houses, more and better schools...
...scene (same set throughout) is apparently the reading room of a public library. But it is obviously not quite an ordinary reading room. In a revolving door a shawled figure treads slowly round & round; the pretty librarian reclines on a couch; one of the readers wears a small coffin as a shoe (he has one foot in the grave) ; another is gloomily reading Joyce's Ulysses for the third time. Nobody is at all surprised when a Negro, uniformed like a doorman and blowing a bugle, heralds the approach of Mr. Jim Dandy-a fat man with no visible...