Word: burial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof of his penitence, Alfonso transformed the royal summer palace at Burgos' Las Huelgas del Rey into a cloister administered by the white-robed Order of Cistercian nuns. The cloister, Alfonso decreed, would also be the burial site for the dead of the House of Castile; the first of the royal bodies, that of baby Prince Sancho, was entombed there...
Dust to Dust. Long before Waksman began his work on soil, scientists had noted that if a diseased body is buried, the point of burial does not become a plague spot. Instead, something in the soil destroys the germs. It was proved that micro-organisms were doing the police job. But how, exactly, did one microorganism destroy another? By eating it? Beating it to the feed trough? Chemical warfare...
...Burial. Prices steadied, but on Monday the selling began again. Steel tumbled to 186, General Electric lost 47⅛ points. Tickers again fell nearly three hours behind, and again thousands of new margin calls went out for the money that couldn't be begged or borrowed. Thus came "Black Tuesday...
...Neapolitan custom that, on the first Monday after burial, relatives and close friends of the deceased return to the grave and deck it with flowers. On that day, Cicatiellos bearing red flowers and Coronas bearing white flowers appeared at the cemetery. This time, antagonism boiled over and there was a sharp pitched battle...
...track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom are required by the formula plot to get badly entangled in their own emotional traces...