Word: coffining
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Rider. Near Barcelona, a peasant hitched a ride on a truck carrying an empty coffin. As it was raining, he crawled inside the coffin. Soon, the truck took two more passengers aboard. As they drove on, the peasant raised the lid, ejaculated: "It's stopped raining." Over the side went the other riders in terror. One was killed, the second badly hurt...
...grisliness preceded the proposal. One day reviewers unwrapped a small, oblong parcel, found inside a miniature black cardboard coffin with a hinged lid. In it was a card reading, "Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy." There was no identification of the sender...
...this picture misses its mark. Virginia is a good state in a lot of ways but the Holywood people sure make it out to be a pretty sad place. Oh yes, they bring home the most beautiful woman in the world--and how do they bring her? In a coffin. Now look, is that fair? After waiting for years to see the most beautiful woman in the world she shows up in a wooden kimona. For heaven's sake; don't take the kids...
...attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until it is in such a state of decay that it can no longer be enjoyed." Finally it is placed in its coffin, "with the words 'adios, mamacita' on the lid, and the properties are returned to the priest or the nuns from whom they were borrowed...
...cold, dismal day the flag-draped coffin was carried from the Embassy to a caisson, escorted up Massachusetts Avenue by a squadron of cavalry. The city grew quiet as the mounted band played a funeral march. The muffled drums and the dull clop-clop of the cavalry troop thudded in the grey air. Troopers carried the coffin into the grey, unfinished Washington Cathedral. A dull light edged through the rose window, on the guard of honor, the Union Jack, the Ambassadors, the Supreme Court Justices, the generals, the Cabinet officers, the wreaths of chrysanthemums from President Roosevelt, of laurel...