Word: mortician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead? A fixed hour might be set for the nationwide broadcasting of funeral music and nationwide funerals might be timed accordingly. A resolution urging such procedure was introduced at a meeting of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors' Association, held last week in Camden, by John S. Martin, mortician, delegate from Elizabeth...
Atlanta. The unknown murderers of Robert Brandon, mortician, and Prof. Alexander Hamilton Johnson of Hartwell, slain during the convention of the National Education Association in June...
Richard Haile, once a grocer, now a mortician; for twelve years (1912-1924) National Committeeman from South Carolina, and still a most influential adviser of white Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert...
...best friend is Mortician Mack McMack whom he admires for having installed really fine mortuary apartments which paid for themselves in less than 17 months. The mortuary equipment includes "a pile of nice linen handkerchiefs for the bereaved, all absolutely free . . . and a casket that slides out of the back room into the chapel-drawing room on a little electric trolley, as if by magic . . . thus giving a feeling of awe and mystery...
...well after midnight. When they did come, they were the elite- Pope B. Billups, candidate for Judge; Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University; Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy D. Miller, the musical comedian. Flournoy Miller's stage partner, Aubrey Lyles, was there, as one of the principal speakers. And of course...