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...become quite philosophical, and he comes forth with some decided views on death. He takes for granted a universal belief in the immortality of the soul, and then he explains that a dozen people, sitting very stiffly in chairs on the stage, are dead people in their graven, waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them. When the lovely heroine leaves her funeral and joins the dead, life as well as death is philosophized upon. She goes back to her family and her twelfth birthday...
...Meuse-Argonne cemetery. There lie buried over 14,000 U. S. soldiers, most of them under alabaster crosses, a sprinkling of Jews under the six-pointed Star of David. Some have for an epitaph Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Theirs the largest U. S. cemetery abroad, containing almost half the bodies not returned to the Motherland...
Almost alone of all the first-rate artists who have painted, drawn and graven the War is Kerr Eby, in that he actually served in the line. Tall, grey-haired and 46, he was born in Tokyo, son of a Methodist missionary. Four dollars a week as a lithographer helped put him through art school in Manhattan. He went to France with the A.E.F. camouflage service, was attached to innumerable artillery regiments, never rose above sergeant's rank...
...colonists until the Itasca returned. And on the theory that the islands' designation as British on some world maps might be construed as a precedent for British possession, a U. S. flag was raised on each island, and mounted on a cairn of stones were legends like this graven in lead plates...
Second, dodging the pronouncement against graven images, spells out: "Hear, Oh Israel, the Name of the Lord...