Word: urn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final deed by which France would honor her "Little Warrior"* was to inter him in the only vacant sarcophagus left among those sarcophagi which are ranged about the gigantic, glistening red stone urn in which the Emperor Napoleon sleeps−bathed in purple light which filters through the Dome des Invalides...
...when Australia won her first match on English ground, cartoonists pictured an urn containing the ashes of British cricket. Since then the teams have contested for the "ashes...
Altogether awesome and holy is the small area circumferenced by the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written...
...taken last week from three places in France: the spot at Ver-sur-Mer where Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd landed last year, from Picpus Cemetery where Lafayette is buried, from the battlefield near Luneville where the first Americans fell in the World War. This earth was sealed in an urn of bronze and gold. The urn was then carried to the U. S. where it will be placed upon the grave of the late Rodman Wanamaker, who did much to further friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible...
...melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar Brandt keeps his methods secret and will not let his workmen find out more about his processes than he can help. No one will ever know just how he made Rodman Wanamaker's urn...