Word: embalm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead men, whose heroism he tries to embalm in lifelike verses. Sample (on Andrew Jackson's statue in Nashville...
...midst one god who was extremely dead. From Jyekundo, where the Panchen Lama died, a retinue of 1,000 lamas, Chinese soldiers and relations of the Buddha set out last winter to take his body to Lhasa, to bury it with proper ritual. Unable or unwilling to embalm it, they wrapped it, in a sitting position, in cloths...
...week at Albany he introduced a bill which, if passed, would enable New York cities to establish municipal funeral parlors such as several big European cities maintain for their indigent citizens. Decent funerals would be provided at cost price: $60. The parlor which New York City would require to embalm & bury or cremate & pack its poorer citizenry would cost...
...Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish resulting from Miss Ahearn's body not having been committed to hallowed ground in a Catholic cemetery...
...most popular attempts to define the undefinable is the age-old effort to embalm the amateur spirit in codes of black and white, but anyone who saw Saturday's game, although the words may still not come, knows now and will never forget what that spirit is. Saturday's game saw the triumph of the amateur spirit over the milk diet, and sports writers will be busy all week comparing it to the battle of the Marne, to Thermopylae, to whatever overworked allusion they can conjure up to the triumph of bare courage in the face of overwhelming odds...