Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night in Philadelphia during the Christmas season of 1786. For all its whimsical inventiveness, 'Mason & Dixon' is basically a historical re-creation of the known deeds of the astronomer Mason and the surveyor Dixon. The line did not constitute their...
...only offensive light for the Crimson came with seven minutes left in the first period off a power-play wrister by junior Jeremiah McCarthy from the left point that snuck past the screened Big Red goalie, Jason Elliott...
...junior Ethan Philpott rushed up the ice, skated in back of the goal and passed the puck to Jeremiah McCarthy, who was positioned just inside the left face-off circle. McCarthy fired a shot on goal and senior forward Joe Craigen picked up the rebound at the right post and put the puck behind the Dartmouth goaltender...
Death and taxes aside, two things were long a certainty on the gulf coast of Mississippi: if you died in Biloxi, you would be buried by Jeremiah O'Keefe; if you died in adjacent Gulfport, Bob Riemann would do the honors. A sometimes bitter rivalry existed between their families, but both names remained beacons in the fog of surprise and grief that overcame people upon the death of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Then something happened to Riemann's empire. His mortuaries still bore the name Riemann, and his sons Mike and David still managed the business. Hearses came...
...Jeremiah O'Keefe is at his desk in the headquarters of Gulf National Insurance Co., a key part of the O'Keefe family's Biloxi empire. Gulf National sells "pre-need" funeral insurance, which lets forward-thinking souls pay in current dollars for funerals that are bound to be more costly down the road. Funerals have always been a family affair for the O'Keefes. As a teenager, O'Keefe helped out with embalmings done in the homes of the deceased, to which he and the embalmer brought large suitcases and big jugs for catching--well, for helping the newly...