Word: disinterments
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Angered because his son's brain had not been put back after an autopsy, John Dillinger Sr. got a permit to disinter the body from its Indianapolis grave, threatened to prosecute Cook County (Ill.) authorities. To appease him a Chicago coroner's toxicologist quickly announced that he had examined the...
A plan often followed in teaching such courses in other colleges bears consideration. The student of history is furnished, not with a syllabus measuring off pages in a text book that the lecturer may intone "Read your Fishah, gentlemen, read your Fishah!" but with a cursory outline of the course...
White Zombie is based on Negro metaphysical practices in Haiti, which Author William B. Seabrook. credulous savage-lover, exploited in The Magic Island. Seabrook was enthusiastically noncommittal about the actual existence of ''zombies'' (animated dead men). The picture fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to...
Next day Benita was buried in Philadelphia. The sensation-mongers of the Press followed her even to the grave. The girl's father, John E. C. Bischoff, said that reporters had tried to bribe gravediggers to disinter the body, in the belief that the girl's diary had...
In the November issue, Professor Hart mentions the following items in his survey of the history of the U. S. (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) : Retirement of General Sawyer and Ambassadors Harvey and Child; General Wood's troubles in the Philippines; the financial difficulties of Governor McCray of Indiana; the...