From Waugh, 1948

From Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One (like Mitt Romney, don't worry about the context, just enjoy the line):

These were the dark days, to be set against the ritualistic, almost orgiastic cremation of a non-sectarian chimpanzee and the burial of a canary over whose tiny grave a squad of Marine buglers had sounded Taps.

We've no more Waughs. A damn pity, that.