Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In recent years Colman led a squirely life in the Santa Barbara hills. With his actress wife Benita Hume he did a radio-and-TV comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and...
Philadelphia's Mayor Richardson Dilworth was crying as he groped for a phrase that could crystallize an emotion. "It is a horrible thing," he sobbed finally, to 50 mourners at the lamplit coffin in a small West Philadelphia funeral home, "that this could happen in our city." The mayor...
Last week Dr. Buttrick backed down. On his recommendation, the Harvard Corporation announced: "The Harvard community is today a mixed society. It contains numerous groups with religious loyalties other than those which gave shape to Harvard's ceremonies of public worship." Therefore, "such private services (as weddings and funeral...
Mrs. Halloran, who had lately rendered fatherless her grandchild Fancy through an expedient shove of her hapless son down a long stairway ("His funeral went off very well."), consolidated her grasp of the affairs of the household;
"Accordingly--in part because the church building is a memorial to all the Harvard men who fell in World Wars I and II--we recognize, as our predecessors did, that Harvard's Christian church ought, whenever it appropriately can, to offer hospitality to members of its community for private marriage...