Word: urns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived the rest of her days on the Continent, never bothered to speak anything except English. Her favorite word was "superb," which she applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap. She detested "Bohemianism, quaintness, affectation, whimsy, and-above all-effeteness." In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point...
...loose from the Government, now has Carnegie Foundation funds to keep it free from partisan seduction. Says Williams: "Anyone who comes to our cafe must drink out of the same urn. We are not touting for any government, department or political party...
Maximilian & Molly. Grandmother took in boarders. One of the boarders had two prized possessions: an immoral Mexican hairless dog and an urn containing the ashes of his late wife. The urn was lost in a saloon, but young Gene finally inherited the Mexican hairless, which was named Maximilian. From another source he acquired a parrot named Molly, which was fond of mulberries and, much to the consternation of a neighbor's chickens, liked to hang upside down from the branches of a mulberry tree. Molly had been trained by a lady known locally as French Marguerite. Her habits "bewildered...
After the terrible battle at Falaise in August 1944, a Presbyterian padre in the Canadian Army had a deeply patriotic impulse. From a burned-out tank Major Robert Currie Creelman, M.B.E., took the bones and ashes of an unidentified Canadian, placed them in an urn, brought them home, planned a memorial shrine to all Canadian dead in World...
...after Creelman had sprinkled the soldier's ashes on the grounds of his church at Weston, Ont., the Army's principal Protestant chaplain, Colonel J. Logan-Vencta, and Brigadier Churchill Mann showed up, asked for the urn...