Word: crypted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parents of the late mush-mouthed Comic Jo−who were bequeathed a third of his $100,000 estate-settled out of court a suit they had brought against his widow, charging that she was extravagant in buying a $9,579 marble crypt...
...Martin-in-the-Fields was one of London's first blitzed churches. A bomb penetrated the crypt, but the bells are sound. The Church of St. Sepulchre stands opposite Old Bailey, which was hit three times, but the church, whose tenor bell once tolled for executions, has so far escaped. The Shoreditch bells are untouched. Incendiaries burned holes in the roof of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, legendary church of all those born at sea. The windows were blasted, but the church and its bells are intact. Bow Church was damaged; its bells remain...
...fictional sisters from Columbus, Ohio move into a characteristic Greenwich Village mare's nest-a furnished, one-room, basement apartment (with partitioned bathroom) suggesting a cross between a Gothic crypt and a rummage sale...
Talented refugees did their best to help their British hosts with holiday entertainments. In the crypt-shelter of one London church a nativity play, The Christmas Story, was scheduled to be performed by a German-refugee cast wholly composed of non-Aryans who are Christians. Traditional British carol singing, usually done by amateur groups who stroll from door to door, take up a collection which they donate to charity, and are invited in for drinks, was abandoned this year because of the black-out and night bombing. Officials did all they could to see that Christmas celebrations took place indoors...
...patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would be just like that bloody Hitler to try his invasion on Christmas."* From amid the rubble and ruin of Coventry a broadcast was planned of Holy Communion in the 600-year-old crypt of the chapel of smashed Coventry Cathedral...