Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-mile boardwalk along the ocean front and the special force of 24 patrolmen whose chief duty it is to see that visiting couples keep their more wayward ideas to the privacy of hotel rooms, that male bathers keep their shirts on. Perhaps even more of a civic monument is Mayor Harry Bacharach, who attracted considerable attention two years ago when he moved his office to a space on an amusement pier between a chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite so that job-seeking visitors must pay 25? apiece...
...brickwork are intact but the rest is a shambles of stripped roofs, crumbled walls, tangled beams and ironwork, Carved and scribbled everywhere are visitors' names, initials, wisecracks. This appalling ruin, a fortress which never traded shots with a single enemy, President Roosevelt last week declared a National Monument.* It was at once suggested that the monument might appropriately be left in its present state, renamed Fort Mudd...
...plaster, the latest exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...
Freed from financial temptation by a fat inheritance and prepared by governmental studies at Yale, Oxford and Columbia, Robert Moses has given his whole life to able public service. Largest single monument to his brilliant, non-partisan career in New York State and City administrative jobs is Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated...
...soul to depart from a corpse, a believer will say that the soul is immortal, but both agree that after death, the body is just a worthless piece of flesh. Why then, give this 98? worth of lifeless meat an all-metal casket costing thousands of dollars, an expensive monument, a shower of floral wreaths and a long line of hired cars filled by hired mourners...