Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grasse 40 musicians of a different color. They carried no fiddles, no trumpets. They were Negro singers, members of the Hampton Institute Choir (Hampton, Va.) bound for London where they will sing under the patronage of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and place a wreath on the tomb of David Livingstone in memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction for its singing of classical as well as of racial...
...Jesus' trial, crucifixion, death. When he came to write the book, his investigations and deductions led him to a different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison's book is written like a detective story, suspense false clues and all. But the answer, held back till the last chapter, will come to many readers like an anticlimax after a breathless prelude. Author Morison's answer is: Jesus Himself...
...Foch greater than Clémenceau? The commission on finance of the Chamber of Deputies lately favorably reported two money bills which seem to answer. The first appropriates 2,500,000 francs for a tomb to Marshal Foch. The second, while recalling that "Clémenceau was the Organizer of Victory and the Savior of France," appropriates for a statue to him 100,000 francs?exactly 1/25 of the sum to be spent on Foch...
...when you had reached the highest honors, after a ten-years' silence, to wait till you had disappared from the scene [into the tomb] and then have me pelted out of your window with roadside pebbles [the book Le Memorial de Foch, published by Journalist Raymond Recouly and quoting his words in a long attack on Clémenceau for having "lost the peace"] ?I tell you frankly [this] does not redound to your glory...
Those who visited Holy Cross Cemetery last week found that the body of Priest Power had been reburied in a new grave. Around it stood a seven-foot fence. Around the old tomb and the whole Power plot were similar barricades. Posted nearby were grim-faced State police. Manifestly neither Church nor State intended to permit helter-skelter demonstrations. Announced Cardinal O'Connell: "Those who go to the cemetery for just and pious reasons must be prepared to obey strictly the regulations, else they will be excluded...