Word: coffining
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...sight again miles away, had most of Europe agog. It was staying up too long! Evidently it could not come down! There was said to be oxygen supply for only ten hours, and here it was 15 hours already. Piccard and Kipfer must be floating, like Mahomet in his coffin, dead in the middle...
Your report of the midnight burial in Kansas City has made me change my will. Old folks like me aren't much to look at any way and I have written, "Just close the coffin and put me down in the ground quietly without anyone having to see more than necessary of this sadness." Death is going to be mysterious, I know, and if my friends are afraid to follow me to a graveyard at night I don't want them there, I'll go it alone. For anyone who does care to go, it ought...
...Haydn closed his eyes and died in 1809, all Europe reverently mourned him. In Vienna the admiration of two men expressed itself strangely: a jailer and the secretary of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Haydn's patron, bribed a gravedigger to spade open the grave, break the seal of the coffin, hack off for them the dead composer's hulking head...
DEXTER D. COFFIN Vice President C. H. Dexter & Sons, Inc. Windsor Locks, Conn...
...Drenoff, Bulgaria, was celebrated the funeral of Efrem Todor, peasant. The village priest stood by his coffin, said calmly: "And he leaves all his property to the Church." Angrily all Efrem Todor's relatives rose up, protested bitterly that he did no such thing. From the coffin came a loud groan, a sound of splintering wood. Efrem Todor sat up. The priest fled in confusion, the villagers cheered...