Word: shroud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parachute is a hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
Resigned, cheerful in prison, she made friends with attendants, embroidered herself a silk shroud. All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew. At dawn she marched off, unsupported, between two guards. She bantered with newsmen, posed for photographers, shook hands with the warden, kissed the guards, walked firmly up the steps to the gallows. Death was instantaneous, for the jerk of the noose cut off her head...
...primary interest to Mr. Bingham and to the majority of those closely connected with Harvard athletic developments was a small incident which increases the shroud of mystery which envelopes the identity of Alumnus Aquaticus, alias Anonymous Aquaticus, munificent but unknown donor of the $350,000 which has made possible the construction of the University's first-class "swimmery" and indoor athletic plant. When Mr. Bingham reached Los Angeles an unsigned letter in hand-writing was delivered at his hotel room. The note merely stated that if he wished to get in touch with Mickey Riley (the noted Olympic diver whom...
...Chicago, I. J. Zolt, undertaker, went to court because Mrs. Helen Courtney Pett had not paid him for burying her husband. Said Superior Judge David: "You can go to the cemetery where the body is buried and take the shroud from the corpse, remove the coffin, and leave the body to the tender mercies of the Almighty...