Word: mortician
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...House Octet. Among the U. S. "stunts" that entertained the Europeans was the singing of the icehouse octet from Toledo. Eight businessmen, wearing clean blue flannel shirts, sporting ice picks painted red, sang, led by Mortician Jeffery V. Harris...
...curious skull that some grave-openers in Ohio stood gazing upon last week. It bore a copper nose, supplied by a mortician who evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want to enter the courts of Heaven without full facial equipment. It had a copper helmet, intricately carved and fitted with copper rods a foot long for the dead man's elaborate coiffure, long since returned to dust...
...long been observed that Americans approach objects in art galleries much as a mortician approaches a cadaver. They take their hats off. They elevate their noses. They tiptoe. While this procedure is undoubtedly appropriate when the exhibit is very bad, John Sloan, at the Independents' exhibition in Manhattan (TIME, Mar. 24), urged the public to keep their hats on. Now comes Homer St. Gaudens (TIME, May 12), son of Augustus. Said he to newspapermen at the dedication of a new art museum in Houston: "Reassure your public that putting on felt slippers to draw near a picture is unnecessary...