Word: mausoleum
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Although the wanderers did not stop to find out, it was later discovered that the attic is the mausoleum for all of the University's old fossils, stuffed animals, and mummies which used repairing...
Solemnest of man's buildings, the mausoleum gets its name from the great tomb of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus (c. 353 B.C.). The favorite mausoleum of a generation ago resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual...
...Pont died in 1935 he left a trust fund of $4,000,000, $1,000,000 in cash and "Nemours," his 1,600-acre Wilmington estate, to establish a foundation for Delaware's crippled children and aged poor. For this foundation, the $300,000 mausoleum will be the architectural centre. It was reported last week that as soon as workmen finish waterproofing the vaults, Jessie Ball du Pont, A. I.'s widow, may have a section of Nemours' high wall knocked down to allow public inspection of the tomb...
...Pont tower is probably the first private mausoleum in history with a six-passenger elevator, beacon lights and a carillon. Four concrete eagles stare from the tower's four corners, the Du Pont arms in concrete ornament the severe Renaissance façade. RECTITUDINE STO ("By rectitude I stand") is the motto carved above...
...long time ago in Newton, Iowa, old Fred Maytag, who died in 1937, dedicated a concrete mausoleum to the glory and preservation of dead Maytags. Last week, Chicago Newshawk Robert J. Casey reported from Newton that Maytags now molder in common dust, Iowa winters having weathered away the monumental box. Concluded philosophical Reporter Casey: "Maybe there is something significant about that." Certainly the creator of the Maytag washing machine would not have understood the peace that returned last week to his "City of 12,000 Friendly Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took...