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...royal residence, Castle Laeken, he lay in state in his own very simple bedroom. A heavy white bandage was wrapped round his head, and he wore the olive drab uniform of a general. The scarlet sash of the Grand Cross of Leopold was across his chest. There was an ivory crucifix in his bruised hands. The plain rosewood bed on which he lay was covered with white lilacs. Two yellow altar candles burned steadily at its foot, two black-gowned nuns prayed at its head. His clock ticked steadily away on the bedside table...
...Every student who expects to march in the procession must procure a torch, a red sash to be worn over the right shoulder and a stick of red fire. These outfits may be obtained at the Co-operative today, until 6 o'clock for the nominal price of $1. This price is barely sufficient to cover the expenses of the parade such as: fireworks, illuminating facilities, police protection and incidentals. Though it is supposed that a sufficient number of outfits have been ordered, it is essential that everyone should secure his as early as possible...
...alcohol faster than others. The quick-burners can drink much more than the others before getting drunk. But every drunk's brain is wet with alcohol. Thus Dr. Gettler could tell that Ruth Snyder besotted her husband before she and Judd Gray crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray with a slug of whiskey. "That whiskey." said Dr. Gettler, "was loaded with bichloride of mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first...
...late Col. Michael Friedsam. the lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...
...Plymouth, Vt. Miss Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...