Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he was debating whether to stay away from choir, according to Biographer Leopold de Chérancé, O.S.F.C., the Virgin herself appeared to him and said: "Be assured, my son, that this body of mine . . . has been preserved from the corruption of the grave. Be equally assured that, three days after my death, it was carried upon the wings of angels to the right hand of the Son of God, where I reign as Queen...
...starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush. Another pile of 15 lay sprawled in a cornfield. Others lay in a mass grave by the railroad tracks. General Allen counted 68 dead. There were 21 survivors, who were immediately flown to Japan...
Like all of Green's novels, Back has a skinny plot, scarcely more than an anecdote. War Veteran Charley Summers returns to England with an ill-fitted metal leg and a battered mind. He visits the grave of his old flame Rose, who died while he was away. Everything reminds him of her: the blossoms fringing the graveyard, her father's chatter, the name of a waitress in a pub. When Rose's father urges him to visit an attractive London widow, Charley takes the address but shows little interest; he is still dreaming of Rose...
...claimed to be present at the death varied widely. Some years later a shoemaker's wife, who had been charged with the care of the royal prisoner, swore on her deathbed that young Louis had been spirited away and that another boy had been buried in his grave in the churchyard of Sainte Marguerite...
Last week a company of still loyal believers who call themselves the Survivantists gathered around an open grave in a Delft cemetery to exhume the old bones which may or may not be those of an heir to the throne of France. A new examination of Naundorff's remains did nothing to dispel the mystery, but the Survivantists were not discouraged. Next year in the Vatican, on the 100th anniversary of her death, the secret will of Maria Therese, Duchess of Angouleme, is to be opened and read. Perhaps, hope the Survivantists, it will contain the final proof that...