Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane...
When he died, in 1925, 30 boy choristers sang at his funeral.
Al was in the fourth row of pews. As the catafalque was laid before the altar, priests were chanting the De Profundis. Solemn Requiem Mass. Funeral sermon. "Death is not a parting, but a meeting." No eulogy. "Resurrectio sum et vita."
Therefore, at the funeral of M. Graf, strong peasant hands seized the bodice and skirt of his widow, tore them off, flung her naked into his open grave, and pelted in dirt.
U. S. weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane...