Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delightfully colorful as TIME usually is, I think it is rather too graphic in the March 19 issue, under FRANCE, titled "Pickled and Burned," giving the account of the funeral rites of His Late Lamented Majesty, King Samdach Preah Bat Kampuchea Sisowath of Cambodia.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday at 1 o'clock at the Congregational Church in Dedham.
Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been...
Before the funeral car advanced 200 heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern...
The procession came at last to a funeral pyre, high, mighty and well laid. Round it the hundred widows grouped themselves for a final chorus of wails and lamentations. Slowly, reverently all that remained of Monarch Sisowath was borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In...