Word: coffining
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...fish were "biting like hungry tigers" but the President got not even a nibble the first day out. Christmas Eve the President & party feasted on roast oysters at the Ossabaw Island place of H. N. Torrey of Detroit. They ate Christmas dinner as the guests of Howard Earle Coffin on Sapelo Island where Calvin Coolidge was entertained four years ago. Mr. Coffin and the President are remote cousins, their families having gone west together from North Carolina to Ohio in 1802. At West Milton, Ohio. Mr. Coffin was born in a house built by John Hoover, the President...
...discrimination, no authoritative history of jazz. It has remained for Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book called Aux Frontieres du Jazz, now current in Paris, Robert Coffin, Belgian musical essayist, explains fastidiously what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer...
...Marseilles, France, to test his friends, Leon Barat invited them to his funeral, lay stiffly in his coffin while they talked about him. When he rose to thank them for their good opinions, one friend collapsed with heart trouble, died soon afterward. The widow sued Leon Barat for damages...
...three engine-makers-Baldwin's dewlapped Samuel Matthews Vauclain, American's songwriting, politically prominent William Hartman Woodin (see p. 9) and smaller Lima Locomotive's Joel Stanley Coffin-saw the danger signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down...
...dress pinned at the throat with a brooch. was laid out in the Soviet Parliament Building on the third floor. The G. P. U. (secret police) band at one end of the room played a funeral dirge now and then. Five men dressed as workers stood guard around the coffin. Two middle-aged women entered, wept softly for about an hour and went away. Who were they...