Word: mausoleum
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...been poisoned by Stalin. But Zbarsky and Vorobyev, employing secret methods, restored the corpse so that in the next 15 years millions of faithful Communists were able to file reverently past Lenin's body as it lay under a glass tent in a red granite mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square. More detached visitors noted a progressive wasting in the skillful job done by Zbarsky and Vorobyev...
...October 1941, as the Germans besieged Moscow, the mausoleum was closed and Lenin's body moved. On view again at war's end, Lenin appeared to have undergone a change for the better, causing Observer B. Krinitsky to exclaim: "Lenin looks much the same as many of us remember him." The reason for this startling rejuvenation, was suggested last week by Budu Svanidze, 57-year-old nephew of Stalin's first wife Katerina. Svanidze, who recently bolted a Soviet diplomatic job to marry a Hungarian girl, has written a book about life with Stalin, which France...
...escort of motorcycle police guided the cortege of 22 black limousines to the cemetery. In the bright noon sunlight, dappling through Japanese plum trees, the casket was placed on a grassy knoll before the marble-columned mausoleum where Hearst's parents lie. Bishop Block read a poem, The Song of the River, which W.R. himself had written for his papers...
...look at the enormous stone cenotaphs buried in dust, the colonel . . . left and finally found a rabbi, from whom to take the town over. Later on, when Meinertzhagen discussed his experience with [Father Hugues] Vincent, the famous Dominican archeologist, it became clear that he had actually been in the mausoleum of the patriarchs, missing in his hurry a unique and irretrievable chance for research . . . THEODORE F. MEYSELS Jerusalem...
...much as the atmosphere of Rome. In any case, at both extremes he displays the same excess: the same romanticism, sensationalism, violence. Now he writes of a woman who, when baffled, shatters her household possessions instead of her sanity-a woman who has to be rescued from a mausoleum instead of sent to a madhouse...