Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With some degree of trepidation the authorities of Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden, Mass, last week reopened the portals of their holy ground. During three weeks in November some 1,000,000 souls of every description had overrun the cemetery seeking the tomb of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal...
...Calvin Coolidge, F. F. Wilder '32: "The Washington Conference", anonymous, J. W. Norcross '32; "Woolsey's Farewell" by Shakespeare, H. C. Friend '31: "The New South" by H. W. Grady, G. E. Lodgen '32: "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson, J. L. Ware '30: "The Bishop Orders his Tomb" by Browning, M. F. Loewenstein '32: "Bryan" by Vachel Lindsay, D. D. Lloyd '31: Selection from "John Brown's Body" by Benet, Abbot Peterson...
...officials, President Hoover labored at his desk Washington's birthday. At noon he motored with Mrs. Hoover to Alexandria, Va., helped Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard review a parade. Later he went on to Mt. Vernon to pay a three-minute, wordless visit to the first President's tomb...
Etruscan Hero's Tomb. Princess Luciano Bonaparte owns land at Vulci, Etruscan community near Rome. Etruscan tombs underlie the whole vicinity. Recently, watching her peasants plowing, she saw a yoke of oxen sprawl into the ground. After extricating the animals, searchers found a series of unknown, unrifled tombs. Chief among them was that of an Etruscan hero, shrouded in blue and white gauze, with his little possessions around him, even a branch of laurel, still green. A coin in the tomb dated it about the 3rd century...
...Calvin Coolidge dedicated his Mountain Lake (Fla.) Sanctuary last year, Edward William-Bok said of its transplanted greenery and bell tower: "Every traveled visitor who sees it now, in its completed state, is immediately reminded of the Taj Mahal, in India and unhesitatingly ranks it with that world-renowned tomb...