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...Dowager Empress, the Imperial Princes, the Ministers of State and other high dignitaries then ascended the altar, laid evergreen beside the body, sprinkled incense and turned away. With this simple ceremony the funeral itself was over. Then came relays of 120 pallbearers, great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault...
Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...
...writing brings up a problem about sensitive women. A sensitive woman can be either a bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged...
...first few minutes after the fall of the puck neither sextet could gain the upper hand. Presently Terrier scoring bids began to rattle off Morrill's stick and pads as Nelson, Gregory, Viano and Lawless made repeated sallies on the Crimson net. The Harvard guardian bore the brunt of this assault alone, and his great work in front of the cage staved off what appeared certain defeat for Coach Bigelow...
...successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner, railroad operator, financier and philanthropist. James Ward Packard, the young graduate of the school Asa Packer founded, was successively an employe of an electric company; organizer of his own electric company; inventor, developer and promoter of a motor car which bore his name. The laboratory which he has presented, complete with the most modern of everything in boilers, generators, delicate measuring devices, special laboratories for research in radio, high voltages, refrigeration, and many another branch of technology, represents part of the proceeds from Mr. Packard's eminently successful motor car.* Even...