Word: crypt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...
...died a bachelor April 15 ot last year (TIME, April 27) in London, where he had made his home since 1884, although of American parentage. Just now his sisters are erecting in the crypt of St. Paul's, London, a large bronze crucifix in his memory. It represents Christ holding a chalice, with a figure on either side. He designed it for the Boston library...
...length the earthly remains of Alexandra were placed beside those of King Edward, in the crypt of the Chapel. There the imperial pair will await the completion of a great sarcophagus now being built for them...
...Hugo Stinnes, crafty, potent, indurate,-a short while "All-Highest" of Germany-was planned a mausoleum to rival Les Invalides. Like the upstart Napoleon, he should lie in a marble crypt deep under a marble dome. In place of WAGRAM, JENA, AUSTERLITZ, PYRENEES, etc., there should be carved COAL, IRON, RAILROADS, NEWSPAPERS, etc. And all should be suffused by pale blue, pale yellow lights...
...diameter. It will be supported by Doric columns and within will be an open court. In the court, two black marble slabs shaded by a single willow tree will cover the sarcophagi of the President and Mrs. Harding. A stair will lead down to a marble-lined crypt. The memorial will stand in a ten-acre park for which A. D. Taylor of Cleveland will be landscape gardener. They hope to open the memorial by Nov. 2, 1927, which would have been the 60th birthday of Mr. Harding...