Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of the Princes August Wilhelm and Oscar and the ex-Crown Princess, a parade of the Imperial Guard in full pre-War splendor took place at Potsdam ? a town just outside Berlin, where the Kaiser had his principal palace. The occasion was the unveiling of a monument to the memory of fallen members of the Imperial Guard...
...weapons of that spiritual war fill the rest of the volume?nine armories of selections?the collected best of his work. A collected edition is often apt to prove either an unfortunately top-heavy monument or a comfortable wheel-chair for a dying reputation. This is neither. Doubtless the work is uneven ? some of the branches on the tree are dead and others stunted ? of what collected works could that not be said ? But, on the whole, the volume displays a force and beauty truly of our own blood and earth, no longer merely in promise...
...that he had merely discussed its general feasibility with J. Ogden Armour and Mr. Marcy. Mr. Armour was at first opposed to the plan, but later changed his mind when Mr. Baruch pointed out that if the farmers should take over the Armour Grain Co. it would be a monument to Mr. Armour and his father...
Chief Justice Taft went to his home town, Cincinnati, and made a speech on the Supreme Court. His text was Salmon P. Chase, a former resident of Cincinnati and Chief Justice. The occasion was the unveiling of the Chase monument...
...Memorial Day procession on May 30. Forming at Central Square at 9 o'clock in the morning with veterans of the G. A. R. and the Legion, the parade will procede from the City Hall to the Common, where wreaths will be laid on the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. This will be followed by a brief ceremony at the Cambridge cemetary after which the parade will disband...