Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped the trunks of the famed Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac tidal basin...
...Washington occurred the newsgathering stunt of the week. National Broadcasting Company announcers took a microphone to the top of the Washington Monument, invited visitors to broadcast their opinions of the swollen Potomac below, solemnly maintained it was purely by chance that two Negro hymn singers showed up, sang Deep River...
...style is closely related to that of the sculpture in the Cathedral at Burgos, a key monument of Spanish art. Archeologically, coming from a dated sarcophagus, it is of importance in adding another placement date to the Cathedral...
...windows, hand-painted draperies and a Flemish tapestry of a knight in shining armor striding toward a castle. The knight is George K. Gombarts. "It's a dream we had," said Supervisor Gombarts last week, "a 20-year dream come true. I intended it as a kind of monument...
...flagship always lead the way." When he heard of a proposed statue of himself, he demurred. "It does not seem proper to me that expense should be incurred in this manner at the present time. How can you be sure that I always shall live up to the monument that you propose to erect to me? I intend to remain prudent at all times until my death, but who can tell...