Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With casual plausibility, a Russian newsman at the U.N. put an effective end to five, years of speculation. What-a curious West had wondered-happened to Vasily Dzhugashvili Stalin, fighter pilot, once (in his mid-20s the youngest general in Russia's armed forces, younger son of Joseph Stalin...
Like the weddings performed by Dog-patch's Marryin' Sam-who climaxes his deluxe $2.98 ceremony by thrusting a pair of lighted candles in his ears and jumping off a cliff whistling The Burning of Rome-French funerals come in several grades. It is the undertakers who set...
No one else could have cried the song with the same blue, bittersweet sadness. No one else could have filled the familiar words with the same heart-heavy longing for rest and ease. So they turned on a phonograph and let Big Bill Broonzy sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at...
Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40...
The sick receiving homes sprang up years ago when an enterprising Singapore Chinese noticed that poorer people, who could not afford a funeral parlor, had to put coffins on the sidewalk for the three to five days of mourning. He also noticed that Chinese refused to go to hospitals as...