Word: cenotaph
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...Abbey the battered gun carriage from which was fired the first British gun that boomed upon the continent of Europe at the opening of the World War. Upon that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
...them. No, this is not a fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
Plans for a memorial to Percy D. Haughton '99 who died last fall, builder of the famous football system, have been completed. The memorial, which is a cenotaph in stone, will be erected in front of the Locker Building at Soldiers Field, it has been announced by the committee in charge of the plans...
...plans provide for a white stone memorial, approximately 12 feet by five on the ground and eight feet high, with three stone steps leading to a cenotaph. On the face will be the striking football group with the words "In Memory of Percy Duncan Haughton" directly underneath the bas-relief. The coach, crouching to the right of the group is to be a portrait sculpture of Haughton. At the base of the monument will be cut the words. "A Memorial to Percy Duncan Haughton." On each end of the cenotaph will be the figure of an athlete, life-size...
...rightly on page 21 that Smith College "bethought herself or was reminded of Poet Pierre's (Ronsard's) 400th birthday last week." But the head of the French department did not bethink himself in time to procure a bust of Ronsard to be duly "crowned," during the ceremony. A cenotaph was suggested but turned down. Finally, our professor rooted out of the Fine Arts department a bust that looked rather vaguely like Ronsard's, and it was duly crowned, with sonnets and period songs as you say. But the secret leaked out in advance; and rumor runs that there were...