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Last summer the artists traveled 26,000 miles in New England in a 1952 black Chrysler sedan�"sufficiently hearselike to be inconspicuous in a graveyard."

From Time Magazine Archive

A Quakeress could have found no fault with this costume, which placed in grotesque and ridiculous contrast the hearselike trappings of the other women.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence