Word: epitaph
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...marrying once more) and turned country gentleman, social lion, patriarch of the Romantic period. With a constitution "stronger than steel," he lived until 1881 (reading Blake, studying Darwin), and finally had his ashes laid by Shelley's. "The man who best loved Shelley," would have been his chosen epitaph...
...Rogers met his demise. Someone on the Times payroll merely failed to distinguish between two individuals. What was the difference? They were both named Rogers. . . . He put the General's "head" on the criminal's cleverness-wrote the history of a gunman's escape under the epitaph of a famous soldier...
...small epitaph should be written for May Ediss, who used a Cockney accent and the leathern boots of a cattleman's daughter. Of course the West is a queer place and odd things happen out there, but not quite as bad as that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents...
...manner of the entrance was entirely Millerandian. As President of a newly-formed National Republican League, successor to the Bloc National, whose birthplace was the Ba-ta-clan* and whose epitaph was written in the May elections, M. Millerand, backed by 13 of his faithful henchmen, stood not on the order of his coming. In language, pointed and strong, he denounced the Herriot Government in a carefully prepared manifesto. He objected...
...popularity. Although it has figured in all the Presidential elections up to 1920 it has never been entered upon with the same enthusiasm as marked its execution in days gone by It seems to have joined the ranks, of Harvard traditions that now are numbered only by the epitaph...