Word: urn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With two complete counters, each including a coffee urn, refrigerator, and steam tables to keep food warm, they manage to serve 30 men per minute, cafeteria style, thus completing the whole feeding in an hour. The men eat from the Army regulation trays at 60 tables seating ten people each, in a high-well-lighted room. As the students enter the dining room, a large locker is at their disposal to hang coats and hats...
...gimcrackery went wild. Fancy stoves were designed like houses, with mansard roofs and movable iron puppets in the windows. There were also Chinese pagodas with swinging bells. In the most restrained taste was a job turned out by a Troy, N.Y. foundry (see cut), possessing a large humidifier urn on top, in which the housewife could put oil of cloves, cinnamon or verbena to scent the room, and a hot plate over the fire on which she could make...
...General Masaharu Homma, Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Homma is dead. In March Corregidor had word that a Jap general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command previously held by Homma...
...Straus trophy, a large engraved coffee urn, has been in competition since 1931-32, and the only two Houses ever to hold it have been Kirkland and Lowell. For the past few years Lowell has usually been second in the running and has generally shown, next to Kirkland, the best spirit for turning out regularly for all teams...
Earl Carroll set an urn on his bedroom mantel in Hollywood, prepared to live with the ashes of his brother, Major James, who left Carroll his $10,000 estate with the stipulations: 1) that his ashes be kept in the bedroom, 2) that one-third of the estate be handed over to ex-Showgirl Josie Posie De Forrest. The brother's will explained of the ashes, "It may be possible that I will be able to listen in on conversations even though I am just ashes"; of Josie Posie, "After all our battles and loving...