Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bishop Pike, like most Episcopal clergymen, insists that the coffin be closed during the church service and covered with a pall, which makes the most elaborate bronze and silver casket look the same as a plain pine...
...Plain Wood Coffins. Under such skillful manipulation, how many grief-stricken families have the maverick fortitude to select a plain wood coffin and demand that the undertaker dispense with embalming? The answer for a growing number of them is the memorial or funeral society, which contracts with undertakers to provide members with dignified burials costing about $150. Both Authors Harmer and Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations...
...servant goes away. The old man puffs at his pipe and stares across the plain...
...that was long ago. Now, a fat old man sits on the roof of a rotting palace and stares emptily across an empty plain...
...woman who understood Billie's desire to be waited on. Once she devised the ruse of serving him iced tea laced with whisky in gradually diminishing amounts. When he mumbled that he could not get up because he was drunk, she told him that he had been drinking plain tea for twelve hours; Billie climbed out of bed and went to work...