Word: coffining
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...Earl P. Haney of Winchester, Mass. was forced (by ulcers) "to give up a fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...
...Fifty-eight babies have died of infant diarrhea in San Antonio's untidy West Side Mexican slum district during the past month, shocking the city into a belated cleanup campaign. D. A. Richmond's coffin factory was working overtime filling orders for its smallest size: a two-foot pine box, covered with white lambskin cloth, that sells...
Next day 10,000 Arabs crowded into the lanes of the Old City to bury the Mufti's general. Crying "Hayyouh! Hayyouh!" (Greet him), the crowds followed his coffin, draped in the green, red, white and black of the Palestinian Arabs' flag, to the Dome of the Rock Mosque. "Shaheed, Shaheed" (He is a martyr) muttered devout Moslems. More Arabs were enlisting. Others were joining "Learn How to Shoot" clubs...
...without incident. Ten Kuomintang dissenters who were under party censure for getting themselves elected as "independents" staged a hunger strike in the gold-&-cream Assembly hall. Cunning officials placed trays of tea, cakes and dumplings before them, to no avail. The "irregulars'" spokesman bought a white coffin with black stripes, threatened to bring it into the Assembly as a token of protest...
...Prague, a few hours earlier, Masaryk's coffin had rested on a black bier in the black-draped, vaulted pantheon of the National Museum. Stretching beyond its doors, through 3½ miles of Prague streets, perhaps 500,000 people waited with flowers, babies, and tears for a glimpse of the coffin. In the museum, partially lighted by four guttering candles in tall silver sticks by the bier, two speeches were made...