Word: mausoleum
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...rain poured down on Marshal Joseph Stalin and his commissars as they stood atop Lenin's red granite mausoleum. It poured down on 200 unblinking Red Army soldiers as they marched stiff-legged across Moscow's Red Square. It drenched the 1,400-piece military band and the cheering crowds who had braved the weather to see Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky (on a black horse) and Marshal Georgi Zhukov (on a white horse) lead rumbling masses of tanks and motorized artillery in Russia's biggest victory celebration...
Lines and the Line. The Memorial's neoclassic lines, drawn by the late John Russell Pope, are out of tune with the times. From afar, it appears compact, forbidding, lonely as a mausoleum. From hard by, it is too huge, too white, too coldly monotonous. Yet it will stand as a great national monument, for inside is the spirit of a great...
Hopes for the best M.I.T. swimming team in history came to a watery grave in the Techmen's glass enclosed mausoleum last night as Hal Ulen's boys eked out a 60 to 15 victory, winning every event except the dive...
Forest Lawn also boasts a huge, earthquake-proof mausoleum inspired by Campo Santo in Genoa. Its Wee Kirk o' the Heather exactly reproduces the church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Its Little Church of the Flowers reproduces Stoke Poges, where Gray wrote his Elegy. At Forest Lawn, says the prospectus, "undertaking is combined with all forms of interment in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement for everything...
Marriner Eccles' opulent marble and bronze mausoleum was on the block for a curious reason. The Federal Reserve has often proclaimed its independence from the U.S. Government, but in this case it claimed to be an arm of the Government (hence tax-free). By week's end both sides thought the joke had gone far enough, agreed to arbitrate the dispute...