Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skeleton's ribs, arranged in lines beneath the thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly one's vacant pate...
...curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want to enter the courts of Heaven without full facial equipment. It had a copper helmet, intricately carved and fitted with copper rods a foot long for the dead man's elaborate coiffure, long since returned to dust...
...faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub...
...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...
...policy of withholding depressing statistics and publishing favorable ones would not be followed in a perfect world. But the copper trade has at least been perfectly frank about the matter- more so than certain other industries which have practised the same policy. Moreover, blank silence is probably preferable to the issuance of partial, inaccurate or careless statistics...