Word: crypted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday the Cardinal's body lay in state in All Hallows College, his old seminary. This week it will be flown to St. Louis for burial in the crypt he had built for himself in All Souls' Chapel of his great cathedral, where, as custom decrees, his red hat will hang until it rots...
Even the idea for John Paul Jones came from Dr. Boland. He got it last spring, as a commander in the Naval Dental Corps, when he visited the crypt at Annapolis where Jones is buried. He worked out the tunes between extractions and impactions and while "waiting for the Novocain to work." Several of Old Grad Boland's songs have sold well (The Gypsy in My Soul and I Live the Life I Love in 1937; Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush in 1939). He is considering several offers to turn Tin Pan Alley pro, but dentistry...
...heroes of the Mexican Revolution, though dead, might be made to contribute to national unity and, incidentally, to P.R.I, prestige. Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa's suggestion: disinter the bodies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Alvaro ObregÓn, rebury them with full and traditional pomp in a crypt beneath the Monument to the Revolution...
...Masses every Sunday. Its staff of 60 priests hears about half a million confessions a year. On holy days (26 Masses), attendance usually climbs to something over 20,000. Sometimes seven and eight Masses are said at the same time, by using the side altars in both church and crypt. The two Masses at 2:30 and 2:45 a.m. are popular with homeward-bound nightclubbers, printers and reporters...
...cool crypt under the high altar...