Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed bridge would cross the Potomac from the west end of the Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, via Columbia Island, to Arlington. Several kinds of sentimental attachments are in the project. It would reunite the North and South. It would connect the Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert E; Lee on the Virginia shore. It would furnish a direct route from the Capitol to the National Cemetery at Arlington. It would extend the city's Mall across the Potomac to the grave of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman who designed the Capital city...
That abortion of a monument to Edith Cavell, British nurse shot as a spy by the Germans in 1915, is to suffer a slight alteration. At present it has written on it the words "For King and Country." Her last words are now to be included: "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone...
...George Washington (United States)?Gen. Pershing and members of the Battlefield Monument Commission; King C. Gillette (safety razors...
...Hull, England, a monument was unveiled in memory of the pilgrims who, in 1620, left that city to settle in Massachusetts...
Some incompleted or newly-begun projects are: 1) A monument to poet Longfellow in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, scene of Evangeline; 2) a monument to Commodore Perry, near Erie, Pa., scene of the Battle of Lake Erie; 3) a movement to turn into a National Museum the Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, where Washington took oath of office; 4) a scheme for building a paved highway from New York to San Francisco, flanked all the way by monuments, as a memorial to the Americans who died...