Word: cenotaphs
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...body snatchers signed themselves "Democratic Fascist Party," a blackshirt lunatic fringe. But when rumor spread that the Democratic Fascists would ecstatically hoist Mussolini's remains on the Piazza Venezia's cenotaph, in view of Fascism's most glorious balcony, the police put on extra guards to repel a repulsive resurrection...
...London's reconstruction; in London. Round-faced, white-mustached Lutyens, key designer of the Raj's splendiferous capital at New Delhi, was also the Protestant designer of Liverpool's Cathedral of Christ the King (Roman Catholicism's largest-to-be) and London's Whitehall Cenotaph (the Empire's preeminent World War I memorial). In 1927 he predicted a short life for Manhattan's "corroded" steel-frame skyscrapers...
...British Empire. To plan post-war London, Britain's Royal Academy formed in 1940 a Planning Committee consisting of 25 distinguished architects and civic leaders. The committee was headed by famed Civic-Developer Sir Charles Bressey (68) and Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (73), designer of London's Cenotaph and Washington's British Embassy...
Possibly the most treasured honor, the Order of Merit (only 24 holders), went to Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, distinguished architect (Whitehall Cenotaph), president of the Royal Academy...
...leftist press was not very kind to an ideologist who had declared: "When we are in power, the head of a prominent Jew will be stuck on every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames...