Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Frank Billings Kellogg of St. Paul, Minn. thought he had erected his everlasting monument when, as U. S. Secretary of State (1925-1929), he fathered the anti-war pact which bore his name with that of France's late great Aristide Briand, and which was duly signed in Paris by 15 leading nations, including Japan, Italy and Germany. Ever since Mr. Kellogg's successor Henry Lewis Stimson made his abortive attempt to invoke the Pact against Japan in 1931, Mr. Kellogg's monument has seemed increasingly hollow. Last week, not as a Government official...
...about her (Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora) showed people helplessly racked by passion, preached: "Only children have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given in concert form in Boston and New York, but never as a full opera before Composer Berg died in 1935 while...
Capping the rise of the wet grassy stretches is the tall Civil War monument. Around the crest are a siege gun and a captured tank. And lettered on the base of the column is an inscription barely visible through the dark of the rain...
...Built This Monument...
...Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column of the Washington Monument, which gleamed in white marble over the well-scrubbed, red brick city from the heights of red clay Federal Hill...