Word: morticianed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Doe drove a Cadillac, worked in an air-conditioned office and smoked 75? cigars. When John died, the undertaker (whose card described him as a "mortician") came to talk over the arrangements with his widow...
...such sumptuous burial rites has increased ever since the development of modern embalming.* The trend has increasingly set ministers' teeth on edge. To many, such a long-faced travesty on Christian burial seems just as offensive as the frank vulgarity of the District of Columbia's "merry mortician," whose new calendar (see cut) proclaims "Beautiful Bodies by Chambers." In this week's Christian Century, Methodist Minister Edwin T. Randall tells of a community in which the ministers have organized to do something about...
...poet who flops as a writer for the cinema (British, said Waugh) gets a job in a dog cemetery. He falls for a girl who works as a cosmetician in a mortuary for humans. She discovers that he works in a dog cemetery and throws him over for a mortician who works at her place. So the poet kills her, cremates her, and plants her in the dog cemetery...
Habeas Corpus. In St. Louis, Mortician August Kron Jr. confessed to police that "relatives would not put out the money for the funeral," led them to the basement where the embalmed body of a woman had lain in an open wooden casket for 40 years...
Something Rare. Even without talent, Miss Bergman would bring something rare to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise, sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm...