Word: sexton
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...farsighted Gabriel Cohen, a Belgrade shopkeeper, tied several thousand dinars into a neat package. Then he locked and shuttered his shop, and with his bundle of money under his arm, took a stroll to Belgrade's biggest cemetery. There he held a long conversation with a sexton. The money changed hands. The sexton led the way to a family-sized crypt, which Cohen entered. The crypt's massive door slammed, was locked from the outside. Shortly after, the Germans blitzed Belgrade, then took over what was left of the city...
...killed or sent away. Cohen's name was listed among the dead or missing. But Cohen was not dead. Last week, having heard the Germans had left, Cohen came out of his tomb. He was pale, shrunken, with a big, matted beard. He told how every day the sexton had brought him food and the newspapers. One coffin, encrusted with candle drippings, had been his table, another...
...Frederic Henry Sexton, Nova Scotia's 65-year-old Director of Technical Education, reported that of 6,000-odd Nova Scotians now out of the services, fewer than 100 have shown interest in the Government's offer of technical training or general education. In all Canada-only 5,000 veterans were now at school, despite the fact that the average Canadian serviceman never got beyond the sixth grade...
...million words a day were written by reporters about the trial. She and her two brothers were tried and acquitted of the murder of her husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, seven years younger than she, and his choir leader (and mistress), Mrs. Eleanor Mills, 33, wife of the sexton, who were found shot to death in a lovers' lane. Plump, dignified, pince-nezed Mrs. Hall outlived the local novelty of her notoriety, in her last years walked abroad without even drawing stares...
...George R. Clay '43, Dan R. Fenn, Jr. '44, Donald Forie '43, Hugh M. Hyde '44, Myron S. Kaufmann '43, Robert S. Kieve '43, Thomas S. Kuhn '44, Eric Larrahee '43, J. Robert Moskin '44, David E. Pince '43, J. Louis R. Pollak '44, Dana Reed '43, George A. Sexton, Jr. '44, J. Eiden Sawhill '43, Harold W. Smith '44, Adam Yarmelinsky...