Word: graved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fenced Grave...
...Fenced Grave" is a horrifying example of man's inhumanity to man. This is religion? This is the charity taught to the savages, who respect the grief of the bereaved and who bury their dead with pagan ceremonies...
...Jewish cemetery. Because of your stirring article, I will rewrite my will to state that when I die I would like to be buried at Arlington Cemetery, to lie side by side with my Christian brethren, and I dare anyone to put a fence around my grave...
...whom answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight stout widows." Mr. Hirst's wish had been for eight old-maid pallbearers, but the promise of a guinea apiece "was not large enough to overcome the shyness habitual to the maiden state; so, in the end, Mr. Hirst had to fall back upon widows, who, being more accessible...
...inherit and share the humane and religious culture of Europe must examine our collective conscience to determine if we are doing our best to meet the grave threat to our free institutions. I believe that we must rid ourselves of certain false habits of thought of which we have all been more or less guilty...