Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some publicity stunts that Pressagent Fellows tells about: sending an elephant to lay a wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating...
...determined President Gómez' inauguration was the result of a quiet, methodical two-year campaign for the Presidency. Last week, two days before inauguration, Miguel Mariano Gómez reminded Cubans of his illustrious and reliable family background by having three granddaughters unveil a huge Havana monument to Jose Miguel Gómez. Next day President Gómez was sworn in at the Hall of Mirrors of the Presidential Palace by his big-nosed political opponent, Supreme Court Chief Justice Juan Federico Edelman. President and Chief Justice exchanged a big hug. In his speech to Congress, President...
...Southern Ice Exchange erected a monument to Gorrie in Apalachicola. Year ago the John Gorrie Memorial Foundation was chartered to provide Apalachicola with a hospital. By proclamation of Governor Dave Sholtz, next August 11-17 will be "Dr. John Gorrie Ice Memorial Week...
...pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg's manners, clothes, public houses...
...section represented here was, like all the others in the church, concealed under a coat of paint by the Turks when they occupied the city. Lately, the present Turkish government has converted the building into a sort of national monument and the Byzantine Institute of America was given permission to uncover the mosaics. This section has just recently been exposed to view and photographed...