Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by...
Aux Champs! The coffin was carried from the Embassy to an open hearse, while a French infantry band played Aux Champs! (To the Fields!)-the sad yet stirring air which moved so many at the funeral of Marshal Foch.
General John Joseph Pershing caught a severe cold, last week, in Paris, while walking in a chill wind at the funeral of Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick (see p. 25).
Ignoring the advice of physicians and the pleading of friends, Mr. Herrick at the funeral of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (TIME, April 1) had taken off his silk hat, tramped more than two miles in the rain, caught a cold which broke down his long precarious health and killed him within...
Not many months after the Haig funeral, King-Emperor George V caught the pneumonia of which he nearly died, while officiating hatless in the rain before Britain's Cenotaph, on last Armistice Day.