Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Sisowath's body died, Cambodian priests treated it with secret essences to preserve its outer flesh, removed all its internal organs except its heart and brain. Then they folded the body into an urn in the curled position of an unborn child, symbolizing preparation for rebirth somewhere, sometime...
...lord answered . . . Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth...
...volition, into outer darkness leaped John Milton Nichols last week...
Hermann Oelrichs was no exception. His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats...
...head. Later came horsecars, and then several railroads. Roughnecks, sports, plug-uglies and vulgar politicians began to jostle nice people. In 1920, when the subway reached Coney, people from the-city's steaming tenements could get dunked for two nickels, by simply wearing bathing suits under their outer clothes, discarding the latter when they got to the beach. Bitter bathhouse owners called them "drippers" because they dripped on the subways going home. Recently New York's famed and inexorable Park Commissioner Robert Moses estimated that on a jampacked Sunday each person at Coney had about 16 square feet...