Word: mausoleums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this mausoleum, last week, there stood a throng of silent persons. These were relatives of the late Caruso, including his widow Dorothy; come to pay homage to the greatest of their clan. Soon they knelt in an attitude of prayer before the casket. Mrs. Caruso left the crypt, leading by the hand her daughter Gloria II, who was weeping...
...unborn are in the hands of the Elevated's engineers. In an age of more than one kind of acceleration the names of the quick of yesterday are often to be found in the columns of the dead of to-day. It is to be hoped that the rebuilt mausoleum rising from the paying will provide no excuse for the classical use of the mausoleum as one's final resting place...
...very sacred ideals: the memory of a son, and the love of good books. Within its walls are stored the volumes which that man loved and though its portals pass the feet of others who share his reverence and who week what he sought. It is not a mausoleum: It is the expression of an undying spirit...
...churches hold well attended services and it was my impression that many Communists go to church on the quiet:" He remarked that the Lenin-cult may well be taking the place of a religion with many of the peasantry, describing the processions of peasants that file through the Lenin mausoleum at Moscow to look at the embalmed body of the Soviet leader...
...dear Phil's" heart attack several months ago, his removal to a nursery adjoining her regal bedroom; his brave struggle for health, aided by veterinaries and a full-time nurse; his decline, his last look, his death. . . . The watchers filed behind Mrs. Perry to an ornate marble mausoleum on the Perry estate; bowed their heads during the rich lady's last farewell to her pet poodle. Tips...