Word: embalming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...
...editors of college literary magazines edited and wrote for their readers as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do, their creations would have vastly more vitality and probably just as much, if not more, literary merit. The aim of the editors should be not merely to embalm choice literary productions, but rather to stimulate discussion, to contribute definitely to undergraduate intellectual life...