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  • In contemporary America, mourning conventions such as wearing black armbands or using black-bordered stationery have mostly disappeared, but they have been replaced by conventions for grief, which are more restrictive in that they dictate not what a person wears or does in public but his or her inner emotional state.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • Pasted among the pages was a small, black-bordered card that read: "admit the bearer" to the White House on Wednesday, April 19, 1865, the day of Abraham Lincoln's funeral service there.

    Items with Lincoln's signature found in vacant Silver Spring house 2011

  • In contemporary America, mourning conventions such as wearing black armbands or using black-bordered stationery have mostly disappeared, but they have been replaced by conventions for grief, which are more restrictive in that they dictate not what a person wears or does in public but his or her inner emotional state.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • Recent controversy over a statement Rossi made that Airbus illegal subsidies has prompted another clash of attack ads, Rossi's black-bordered ad accusing Murray of ignoring Boeing job losses in the state while launching "a false attack ad."

    Cat Rambo: Washington State Democrats Push the Negative - Somewhat Ineffectually Cat Rambo 2010

  • Walker's description of the stuffed behemoth, as told by Shana Alexander, has the mammoth being towed on a circus wagon with his "widow" draped in black with the rest of P.T. Barnum's elephants following and trained to wipe their eyes on cue with black-bordered bed sheets.

    Ivory's Ghosts: White Gold and the Fate of the Elephant 2010

  • Barnum's elephants following and trained to wipe their eyes on cue with black-bordered bed sheets.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Ivory's Ghosts: White Gold and the Fate of the Elephant Georgianne Nienaber 2010

  • Someone noted in one of the black-bordered eulogy TV segments this morning that he was called "The Prince of Darkness," not by his enemies but by his friends because of his contacts and his power to move the D.C. discussion.

    Phil Bronstein: Robert Novak, the Prince of Darkness for better or worse... 2010

  • Someone noted in one of the black-bordered eulogy TV segments this morning that he was called "The Prince of Darkness," not by his enemies but by his friends because of his contacts and his power to move the D.C. discussion.

    Phil Bronstein: Robert Novak, the Prince of Darkness for better or worse... Phil Bronstein 2010

  • Walker's description of the stuffed behemoth, as told by Shana Alexander, has the mammoth being towed on a circus wagon with his "widow" draped in black with the rest of P.T. Barnum's elephants following and trained to wipe their eyes on cue with black-bordered bed sheets.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Ivory's Ghosts: White Gold and the Fate of the Elephant 2010

  • Someone noted in one of the black-bordered eulogy TV segments this morning that he was called "The Prince of Darkness," not by his enemies but by his friends because of his contacts and his power to move the D.C. discussion.

    Robert Novak, the Prince of Darkness for better or worse... 2010

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