Word: burial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call the Cops! Afterward, Kansas City called again. Louise Eisenhower wanted the funeral service in Kansas City, the burial in suburban Hartsdale, N.Y. The President asked Milton to come down from Baltimore, join him in a one-day trip to Kansas City on the Columbine...
...decided that a 1,600-year-old mummy of undistinguished pedigree had to go. First he suggested burning it, but a museum technician objected, as a Roman Catholic, to destroying a human body. Next Dr. Cooney tried to bury the mummy, and found that he could get no city burial permit. Then he tried to ship it out of town to a small museum, only to be turned down by Railway Express for lack of the physician's death certificate that would have qualified him for the burial permit. When Dr. Cooney made known his quandary...
Your story of the failure to bury a child at the Jewish cemetery in Israel [Dec. 16] might have created an impression that the rabbis in Israel were heartless. In our religion, burial in a Jewish cemetery is a religious rite reserved to those who profess our faith. Since Aharon Steinberg was born of a non-Jewish mother, he was considered a non-Jewish child. The Catholic priest who refused the burial because the child was not baptized as a Catholic was following the tenets of his religion. Needless to say, it is natural for a religion to abide...
...orthodox Jew, I am thoroughly ashamed of some of my brethren in Israel who tried to prevent the burial of a half-Jewish boy in a Jewish cemetery. Because of your stirring article, I will rewrite my will to state that when I die I would like to be buried at Arlington Cemetery, to lie side by side with my Christian brethren, and I dare anyone to put a fence around my grave...
...outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...