Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporting cast is adequate though not entirely distinguished. John Barclay as the Ghost is excellent in every respect, Aubrey Mather extracts a little too much comedy from the role of Polonius, and the King is a trifle too much the conventional villian. The First grave digger is especially worthy of mention, as indeed the entire graveyard scene is. The play portrayed by the actors before the Court, on the other hand is almost pure Watts, with very little Shakespeare included...
From its journalistic grave TIME is saving only Life's worthy name, to be conferred as a birthday present upon TIME'S forth coming newspicture magazine. First issue of the new LIFE will be in subscribers' hands by Nov. 19. Life's staff will be taken over by TIME Inc. intact. Only Life activity to be continued by TIME...
...reading the Bible. He said he would rather bury someone than marry him. Frightened and distressed at this cheery conversation, Eleanor and her sister were even more put out when their father, desiring to warn them against sin, would remark dolefully that he would rather see them in their grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing anything. They studied books calculated to deepen their "modesty of mien...
...suggests that domestic repression and tyrannies created harrowing situations scarcely compatible with the light, affectionate tone in which they are described. When a boy walked home from school with Eleanor it was classified as an "attention" and one of the things her father would rather see her in her grave than see her receive. Eleanor was so concerned she decided to run away, become a missionary and eat cannibals...
...dispose of a dead body decently costs for the undertaking $35 to $1,000; cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...