Word: coffining
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...this time the body of Peter's murdered father was coming back from Marseilles on the light cruiser Dubrovnik, the same ship that had carried Alexander to France and to death. In a very simple coffin he lay. One of the last acts of Queen Marie before rushing to Paris to join her son was to have the admiral's uniform in which her husband was killed changed to the service dress of a Serbian general, in which he had spent most of his life. Nations hurried to do him honor. From Rome Benito Mussolini wired shore batteries...
...Roman Catholic priest named Anton Koroshetz. As leader of the Slovenian People's Party Father Koroshetz has been interned on a Dalmatian island for almost two years. Last week he begged and obtained permission to go to Split "to say a prayer and drop a tear on the coffin of my king...
Meanwhile in Vienna bronze casters and workmen of the firm of Julius Maschner & Son were working day & night to finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb...
...penny earned". If he had done this, however, he would have contradicted the policy which Herbert Hoover's administration initiated and what Franklin Roosevelt's administration is continuing; namely, that of encouraging the American citizen to get rich by spending. Fortunately, however, our President probably realized that Franklin's coffin was too small to permit of rolling over within its confines. V. H. Kramer...
...Dean Sperry or Press, Henry S. Coffin, Union Theological Seminary...