Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th Century fiancee leaves him, both of them disconsolate...
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...brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...
...such character was "Michael." He blushed and shuffled backwards when asked to make a speech. Nonetheless, he had the Tenth (now Eleventh) ward in his pocket. When he died, 4,000 friends followed him to his grave and his enemies could write no harsher epitaph than: "The Champion Payroller of Jackson County...
...house of that famed, fatherly quadroon, Alexandre Dumas Sr. Her poems, edited by Swinburne, were published, praised. She became the toast of Charles Dickens, Napoleon III and many another celebrity, staid and profligate. Yet for the Montparnasse tombstone, bestowed on her remains by Baron de Rothschild, the epitaph she wrote in advance was mournful, cryptic: Thou Knowest. She died in 1868, aged...