Word: coffining
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Sturdy peasants mounted guard all night over a simple coffin which had arrived by truck. Officially the Government of dictatorial King Alexander frowns on Sarajevo's bland assassinophilia, but His Majesty's police know better than to try 'to thwart such resolute citizens. After the all-night vigil, peasants put the coffin on a cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated...
Down thumped the lid of the coffin. The cortége set out for Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery where President Benjamin Harrison and three Vice Presidents rest in peace...
...wicker basket aboard a hearse the body of John Dillinger rode home last week from Chicago's morgue to Mooresville, Ind. There it was dressed in a light suit, fitted into a $165 coffin, and taken to his sister's bungalow outside Indianapolis. During the night 2,500 mourners filed past all that was left of the year's worst killer...
...Camel advertising tells the truth, then smoking a cigaret is not the equivalent of driving a nail into one's coffin. Nor is cigaret smoking the deadly sin which many a smoker still secretly feels...
...play, the most one-sided score on record. Lawson Little learned to play golf on links built on the site of a Chinese graveyard, when his army-officer father was stationed at Tientsin. A club rule said: "Ball may be lifted and dropped from open coffin without penalty." By the time Lawson Little entered Stanford, where he majors in economics and belongs to Chi Phi fraternity, his golf game was steadily in the 70. A good all-round athlete. Little likes golf well enough to train for it, ran three miles before breakfast every day for the Walker Cup matches...