Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Carol II." Since "Prince Carol" has thus far lived quietly as a private person, in Paris, he caused great excitement last week by referring to himself as "King Carol II" in communicating to newsgatherers the statement that he would see no one. Reputedly Carol received last week a message from...
Ferdinand's Funeral. Three Greek Orthodox services were performed over the body of King Ferdinand: the first at the Castle in Sinaia, where he died; the second in the Chapel Royal of the Cotroceni Palace, in Bucharest; and the last at the ancient Cathedral of Curtea de Arges, a still...
Peasants stood all along the route of the funeral train, most of them barefoot and in homespun garments. All held bowls of holy water which they emptied reverently upon the slowly chuffing funeral train.
(3 of 3) green buckram," marshaling perhaps 2,000 mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor?ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of...
The funeral march began with a brilliant silver coffin, a child's coffin. The Super-Reporter dashed away his own "ludicrously sentimental tears," swallowed hard and snatched up minor incidents for the eager readers of the New York Evening Post.