Word: eulogyless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual by small-bore mobsters and tailed by the customary bevy of cops (including half a dozen U.S. narcotics agents who unsentimentally filmed the mourners), Charles ("Lucky") Luciano made his last appearance in his Naples parish church. The late vice lord was encased in a mahogany casket. Following a eulogyless Requiem Mass and a brief bout of fisticuffs between a Luciano pal and a photographer who tried to snap "Charlie Lucky's" last girl friend, a gaudy and gargantuan funeral carriage drawn by eight beplumed horses carried the corpse to temporary rest at the English Cemetery in suburban Poggioreale...
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