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Then, in 1930, when his wife Sarah died, he got the answer. After he buried her he called in the local tombstone merchant, and told him to get to work. He wanted a tomb as big as a house, with six polished stone pillars and a shiny granite roof as thick as a bomb shelter. He also wanted two marble statues: Sarah and John M. Davis as young folks, sitting discreetly at opposite ends of a love seat. The statues were made in Italy, modeled after pictures from the Davis photo album and they cost a mint of money...
...years passed, ten more statues of Sarah and John M. Davis were set up in the tomb. There was Sarah as a young wife and Sarah as an old wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
...tomb became a tourist attraction. John became famous. He used to spend his Sundays at the graveyard, watching folks gawking at his marble likenesses. His relatives quit bothering him. He used up all his money, retired to the Brown County poor farm and lived at public expense. Last week he died, aged 92. Those who attended the funeral said he looked satisfied...
This week, as Paul I followed the coffin of George II to its tomb at the royal country estate at Tatoi (demolished by the leftists in 1944), the Greek Government was already speeding up an all-out drive against leftists. Said Paul on taking the crown: "Our eternal country calls upon us to fight for her existence. . . ." Greece had a new King, but its Government's policy was unchanged...
First he tried the tomb of Peter the Great. But the Czar whose life had been spent making Russia over in the Western pattern would have none of Joe. "No, no," he said, "I opened Russia's window on Europe and now you've closed it. I don't want you in here." Joe sighed and went on to the tomb of Alexander II. "No room," called the Czar. "I freed the slaves and you enslaved them again. I don't want you with me." There was just one tomb left...