Word: sarcophaguses
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...state motored to Arlington Cemetery. It was raw and windy. As the motorcade entered the cemetery, the 21-gun presidential salute from three 755 boomed out over the Virginia hills. After a minute of silent prayer, each of the three men laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the marble sarcophagus of the Unknown Soldier. Taps sounded, and the roll of muffled drums. There were no speeches...
...Caruso's body was displayed under glass in a white marble sarcophagus for eight years until Mrs. Caruso appealed to the Italian Government, had the casket closed...
...abandoned copper mine near Seigen, the U.S. First Army last week recovered other art treasures the Nazis removed from bombed German cities, possibly from French museums. Chief item: the famed, gold-and-jeweled "Reliquary of the Magi" sarcophagus from the Cologne Cathedral. Other items: the bones of Charlemagne, a magnificent carved door from Cologne's Cathedral, paintings by Holbein, Van Gogh, Rubens...
...upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring a sure Reward...
Referring to the discovery of the sarcophagus supposedly containing the bones of Sweyn (TIME, July 19), it seems opportune to point out that the Saxon king defeated by Sweyn was Aethelred the Unready (or Redeless...