Word: coffining
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...back on, brought an influx of letters from readers who-surprisingly to the editors-said they were already devoted to TIME. They harped on the fact that they read it from "cover to cover" (see p. 4). One of the first to use the phrase was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Among the other early enthusiasts famous enough to turn young editors' heads were Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Van Dyke, Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Elizabeth Marbury, Thomas Edison, Archbishop Michael J. Curley, Bernard Baruch, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Joseph Hergesheimer, Henry Ford, Elbert H. Gary, Herbert B. Swope...
Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...
...Muse's corpse is justled from her coffin...
...Darwin, North Australia, Filipino Ignale Iglasius, 80, who had slept in a coffin every night for 30 years "to get used to it," died in a hospital...
...rush to the dwarfs. After an awful chase through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...