Word: sarcophaguses
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...Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe's sarcophagus: The United States of America in commemoration...
...were performed miracles which church authorities recognize as "stupendous." Last month the embalmed corpse of St. Francis Xavier was exposed, for the 13th time since his death, for public veneration. It was declared to be in good condition (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week it was replaced in its silver sarcophagus. Officials checked up. In 40 days, 2,000,000 pilgrims had filed through the church, kissed the feet of St. Francis Xavier. Thousands of miracles had occurred. These will be verified, listed...
...smoke until after the Royal Toast, but in the middle of dinner a huge silver sarcophagus full of toothpicks is solemnly passed round the table, a relic from the founder of Cowes, Henry VIII...
...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...
...antique marble which was formerly a part of a Roman sarcophagus was bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum by the will of Charles W. Gould, author and retired lawyer. The will was filed for probate in New York on Saturday. Mr. Gould, although not a Harvard graduate, had always been interested in the Harvard museum. The marble is only a small item in the late author's large collection of statues, paintings, and other works...