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Playing nursemaid to children while the parents are out at bridge, acting as pall-bearers at $1.50 a funeral, answering night calls at undertakers' offices, and submitting to blood transfusions at $25. an operation are some of the things to which the Elis have had to resort.
"That funeral honors should be paid to a cremated corpse is a defiance of Catholic conscience which objects to cremation. . . . Any funeral is meaningless after destruction of the body by burning."
Two days later beloved King Albert, Hero-Burgomaster Max of Brussels, the corps Diplomatique (with one exception), and the flower of the Belgian Army followed in solemn procession a gun carriage upon which rested a coffin within which was an urn containing ashes. The Papal Nuncio and Cardinal van Roey...
If Pianist Josef Hofmann lay dying in his home on Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, and were able to choose music to accompany his passing, if Retired Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney were similarly stricken and privileged, both men would ask to hear the surging Funeral March from Wagner's G...
One hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man's fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus...