Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the elm is planted, it will be surrounded by an iron picket fence as a means of protection...
...million and a half dollars seems a high price for such relies as those with which Dr. Rosenbach returned. Death masks are ornamental, of course, and a "fine Holland shirt" would probably survive at least one session with the washerwoman: but what secret passion could be satisfied by a "picket containing Napoleon's Hair", and a mummified tendon from the body of the Emperor, in a strange little box with a glass window", is hard for the layman to under stand. Moments of so distinctly personal a character might better have been decently buried...