Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press and a hit for the new regime (nine months) of Library Director Dr. Louis B. Wright, 50, a go-getter with a passion for enlarging the Folger's usefulness. Said he: "I haven't the foggiest idea of sitting up with a corpse or running a mausoleum...
...Chang Chun and several others who had anticipated his moves correctly. Then he climbed aboard the plane and pulled the door shut himself. The Mei-Ling thundered down its runway at 4:15, climbed and circled Purple Mountain where the white stone of Sun Yat-sen's vast mausoleum reflected the last rays of the setting...
...line of march ended at Abbasiya, a suburb of Cairo, where Nokrashy was laid to rest in a mausoleum side by side with his old friend, Ahmed Maher Pasha, who as Egypt's Premier in 1945 had also gone down under an assassin's bullet...
When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...
Despite the concentration on Cowperwood, "The Stoic" paradoxically achieves its major significance only after Dreiser has interred him in his lavish mausoleum. Strictly speaking, the closing section is extraneous both to this novel and to the trilogy as a whole. But as an epitaph to Cowperwood-and in fact to Dreiser himself--the long search into Brahmanism by Cowperwood's last mistress Berenice assumes a weight completely disproportionate to its length. In her study of the Yoga discipline Dreiser furnishes an acute insight into his own final outlook on life...