Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village of Great Leighs in Essex thought itself bewitched last week. On Scrapfaggot Green a G.I., driving a bulldozer, had pushed the stone off the grave of a witch, dead with a stake in her heart these 200 years. Now she was hightailing about the countryside, scattering scaffolds, blowing down haystacks, ringing church bells in the dead of night...
Down from London dashed Professor Harry Price, head of the Council of Psychical Investigation. The professor puttered about the violated grave, diagnosed the mischief-maker as a poltergeist-at-large, whose headstone must be restored exactly as before. He warned: "Its orientation north to south must be precise...
...make sure that its secrets remained secret, inadvertent passers-by were also hanged forthwith. For signature, the Feme stuck a knife in the gallows tree and carved four letters: S.S.G.G., for Strick, Stein, Gras, Grun (Rope, Stone, Grass, Green). Folklore interpreted this literally as noose, headstone and grassy grave...
...humor-revealed after his death last March-was a request for a simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...
Detroit's automakers last week sat down on one side of a long table in Detroit's New Center Building. Their faces were grave. On the other side of the table sat some 30 newsmen from New York, Washington, Chicago and Cleveland. They had been invited to Detroit so that they could hear and tell the U.S. the sad story of the automakers. The story: optimistic talk of overnight conversion of the auto industry to car production, come an early V-E day, is stuff & nonsense...