Word: burial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short story Mr. J. E. Barnett's "Fern Seed" possesses a degree of intensity that is admirable. Perhaps one does not understand the meaning of all the apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...
King Tut had achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been...
...German prisoners and dead soldiers. In it were two pictures, one showing a train taking dead horses to the rear so that fat and other things needed for fertilizer and munitions might be obtained from them; and the other showing a train taking dead Germans to the rear for burial. On the picture showing the horses was the word 'Cadaver...
...Burial. A proposal to the contrary, it was decided to continue to refuse Christian burial to suicides, excommunicates and unbaptized infants...
...Holy Communion prayer, omit the word "Militant" in "Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church Militant." 6) Alter the instructions in the burial service in order to permit reading of the service over the body of a suicide and of an unbaptized person. Also, substitute "though this body be destroyed" for "though after my skin worms destroy this body...