Word: crematorium
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Emotional Wave. In the afternoon the body, seated in a chair on a four-wheel cart, was drawn through the streets by Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...
...half-crazy and exhausted by drugs and debauchery, and his wickedness had degenerated into absurdity. But he still had a few followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's erotic Hymn to Pan. The chairman of Brighton's crematorium committee was not impressed by the innovation. Said he, perhaps unconsciously voicing the thoughts of a generation of Englishmen: "We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again...
Mellern did not have a gas chamber, but it had a crematorium and it worked overtime. Fat Obersturmbannführer Neubauer, the camp's director, had a chauffeured Mercedes, a Hitler mustache and a good stock of real cigars. He had persuaded himself that his was the most "humane" camp in the Third Reich. Weber, the assistant who actually ran Mellern, despised such sentiments; he frankly enjoyed turning living skeletons into dead ones...
...would take a bold undertaker to deny that Los Angeles is today the queen or pearl of the funeral parlor, crematorium and graveyard world. Where else have American mass-production methods been so ingeniously utilized in delivering the defunct citizen to terminal rest? Where else are rites so cheap and splendid, the morticians so tanned and jolly? Where else does sunshine and music so fully flood the funeral home...
...just as he had back in Nowogrod, Poland before Hitler's soldiers came, and now he does not have to fear the police. But he has not forgotten the past-the horrors of war and the concentration camp where his wife and four children were killed in a crematorium...